· Private foundation
Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ART | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT | $5,000 |
| FINS AND FEATHERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE | $3,375 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $1,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE JEWISH COUNCIL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM3× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +206%
- OAORT AMERICA INC6× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +29%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CMCURE MULTIPLE MYELOMA CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- FOFRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2024 · $36k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2024 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Mfjc's purpose is the development of the social capital of the jewish people, its communal, cultural, and professional leadership, and the fostering of jewish connectedness globally, including the propagation of the hebrew language.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CURE MULTIPLE MYELOMA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds CANTOR'S ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE JEWISH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DAILY GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Women International ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Jewish Federation of Detroit · The Kresge Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
How this is measured
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