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Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation at a glance

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Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$246k
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$411kArts & Culture$301kReligion$283kHuman Services$268kHealth$200kYouth Development$192kCommunity Improvement$157kFood & Nutrition$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k50 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $104k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$5,000
DETROIT PUBLIC THEATER$5,000
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$5,000
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
GESHER HUMAN SERVICES$5,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$5,000
EVERSIGHT$5,000
JEWISH SENIOR LIFE$5,000
TEMPLE EMANU EL$5,000
MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%FREEDOM HOUSE: $500 → 21%HIGHER HOPES: $500 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1k → 8%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%FAMILY TREE: $1k → 21%HIGHER HOPES: $2k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $1k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $500 → 8%FAMILY TREE: $1k → 21%FAMILY TREE: $1k → 21%JARC: $3k → 8%JARC: $3k → 8%JARC: $3k → 8%JARC: $3k → 8%JARC: $3k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $3k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $3k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $3k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $3k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $3k → 8%JARC: $3k → 8%JARC: $3k → 8%JARC: $3k → 8%JARC: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
OH
CA
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 96 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
37

Total granted

$2.0M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

57%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG
    9× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +130%
  • LIFE REMODELED
    5× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +38%
  • DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • DK
    DEVELOPING KIDS
    one grant, 2024 · $11k
  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +202%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Detroit Jews for Justice

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

Civil Rights
2
The Jewish Fund

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…

Philanthropy
3
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
4
Detroit Food Policy Council

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Jfa Non-Profit Housing Corporation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Housing & Shelter
6
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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7
About Face Detroit
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8
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
9
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

—
10
Endeavor 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…

Community Improvement
11
United Jewish Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
12
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; 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.
04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 142 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
65/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION OF METRO DETROIT: $122,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION OF METRO DETROITCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONISAAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: $62,500 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $60,000 · OtherDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · Other+99 more: $882,755 · Other+99 moreDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $72,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLI…THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $52,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT I…DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPH…DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $41,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLI…DETROIT OPERA: $21,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT OPERADetroit Historical Society: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDetroit Histo…+6 more: $19,200 · Arts & Culture+6 moreNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG: $207,350 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CO…BUILD INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $9,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $118,700 · PhilanthropyHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $42,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyLIFE REMODELED: $105,500 · Housing & ShelterHumble Design Inc: $8,400 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $37,100 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING BETTER MEN: $35,500 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT DETROIT: $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentJARC: $22,500 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $15,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $9,000 · Human ServicesHIGHER HOPES: $4,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY TREE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2,000 · Human Services+3 more: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$1,272,255Arts & Culture$266,700Community Improvement$234,350Philanthropy$163,200Housing & Shelter$128,900Youth Development$100,100Human Services$58,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG: $207,350 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $118,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE REMODELED: $105,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $72,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $52,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $42,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $41,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $37,100 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING BETTER MEN: $35,500 over 6y, 40% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $35,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR SOCIETY: $34,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $27,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYAD EZRA: $26,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEversight: $25,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKADIMA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJARC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC: $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $18,750 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $18,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $15,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $15,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $12,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $11,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: $11,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH SENIOR LIFE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBUILD INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMICHIGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKSTOCK: $8,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $8,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMetro Food Rescue: $8,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $6,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERYPARK: $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCABARET 313 INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH DENTAL CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Eugene Applebaum …United Jewish Foundat…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…The Kresge FoundationThe Ravitz FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…DTE Energy FoundationFord PhilanthropyAlan Jay and Sue Kauf…George M and Jo Elyn …The Andrea and Lawren…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI57× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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