· Private foundation
Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT | $40,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMAN | $38,600 |
| LIFE REMODELED | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN FREINDS OF OGEN | $5,500 |
| TEMPLE EMANU EL | $5,000 |
| HILLEL CAMPUS ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC THEATER | $5,000 |
| EVERSIGHT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GESHER HUMAN SERVICES | $5,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $5,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| ISAAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH SENIOR LIFE | $5,000 |
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, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG9× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +130%
LIFE REMODELED5× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +30%
DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2017 · $13k
- DKDEVELOPING KIDSone grant, 2024 · $11k
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +202%
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.
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
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…
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…
The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Family Tree Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 142 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BETTER MEN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds KADIMA ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
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 · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family 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 Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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