· Private foundation
Julius and Cynthia Huebner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $216,650 |
| YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH | $150,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| BRILLIANT DETROIT | $100,000 |
| THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC | $100,000 |
| START EARLY | $100,000 |
| DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON INC | $75,000 |
| CHABAD OF SMA INC | $70,000 |
| TZOHAR SEMINARY | $60,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| ROXBURY STONE HOUSE | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $750k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YAYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +1%
- DIDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN5× · 2021–2025 · $288k · revenue +10%
BRILLIANT DETROIT4× · 2022–2025 · $270k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- NPNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +5%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +126%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGANone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be a champion for parents of children in the community.
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
DPSFs mission is to create and enhance educational opportunities for over 50,000 Detroit Public Schools Community Districts students, families and educators. DPS Foundation was organized to ensure DPS, now DPSCD student and families to…
We believe that the first six years of a childs life are the most critical. We offer a high quality learning environment to a diverse community of children and families.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
The mission of the detroit children's fund is to make high-potential investments to expand successful schools, greatly improve lower performing schools, and discover and develop talented educators so that every child in detroit has the…
The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.
The organization provides educational management services to public school academies in the State of Michigan
The detroit creativity project ("dcp") seeks to empower and inspire detroit's young people through improvisation, an art form that helps people build confidence and develop a creative and collaborative approach to their lives.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Epiphany School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sigma Gamma Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Tzohar Arts ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS & SCRAPS ↗
- Who funds Living Arts ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SIGMA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING WORKS ↗
- Who funds TAU BETA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds City of Grosse Pointe Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds SIGMA GAMMA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Patrick and Christie Scoggin Family Foundation · Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michigan · Detroit Industrial School · Dte Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Skillman Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Julius and Cynthia Huebner Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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