· Private foundation
Madeleine & Mandell L Berman Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $333k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $31,588 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| WOMEN WHO WELD | $30,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $25,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $25,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA | $25,000 |
| I AID INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2021–2024 · $186k · revenue +14%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC5× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +11%
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2024 · $140k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- WSWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -7%
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +50%
- CFCOMPANY FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH QUARTERone grant, 2023 · $70k
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
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…
Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 82 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCI-TECH SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN WHO WELD ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Metro Food Rescue ↗
- Who funds SMARTAID INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
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: Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman Support Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Donald R and Esther Simon Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Ravitz 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 Madeleine & Mandell L Berman 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.
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% 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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