· Private foundation
Louis C Blumberg 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL N AMERICA | $33,000 |
| DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY | $25,000 |
| ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| JARC | $5,000 |
| MICH JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME FDN | $3,200 |
| KIDS KICKING CANCER | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $1,800 |
| ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER | $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 (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE4× · 2017–2022 · $216k
- TDTHE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +487%
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2017–2022 · $128k
Funded once
- HDHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROITone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +17%
- CSCONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEKone grant, 2022 · $25k
- VOVIOLINS OF HOPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
The jewish federation of detroit is the cornerstone of our jewish community. we are committed to taking care of the needs of the jewish people and building a strong and vibrant jewish future, in detroit, in israel and around the world.
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…
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
The association provides financial assistance to jewish people in the state of michigan through the lending of money without interest in accordance with core jewish values, respect, compassion, and confidentiality.
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…
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
To further jewish historical education among youths
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
See schedule o - the american jewish historical society (the "society") is the oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the united states. the society provides access to more than 30 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and…
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
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: Karp Family Foundation · Hermelin Family Support Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman Support Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Woll-Yellin Family Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Pappas Foundation Inc · The Eisenberg Family Foundation · David Kahan Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis C Blumberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis C Blumberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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