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Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Marvin and Betty Danto Family 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$385k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$4.9MInternational$4.6MArts & Culture$3.7MPhilanthropy$3.4MHuman Services$983kEducation$847kYouth Development$808kScience & Tech$425kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $711k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+3 grants · $923k
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$385,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT$275,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$262,500
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$232,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$170,000
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$160,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$151,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$110,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT$110,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$87,000
KIDS KICKING CANCER$60,000
INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC$55,000
JARC$50,000
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY$50,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES: $63k → 7%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES: $40k → 7%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES: $40k → 7%NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES: $35k → 7%NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES: $12k → 7%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $128k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $115k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $110k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $108k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $103k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $100k → 8%JARC: $50k → 8%JARC: $50k → 8%JARC: $50k → 8%JARC: $50k → 8%JARC: $50k → 8%JARC: $50k → 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
PA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
DC
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 71 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
7

Total granted

$19M
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

70%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +139% · 78% of their budget
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +198%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HENRY FORD
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC
    one grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue +19%
  • CA
    CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART
    one grant, 2020 · $22k
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
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
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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3
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

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.

Philanthropy
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
7
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
8
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
9
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
10
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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11
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Dr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic. 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

61 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. 61 of the 86 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
44/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $2,325,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganBEAUMONT FOUNDATION: $805,000 · OtherBEAUMONT FOUNDATIONFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $625,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CIRCLEWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $326,410 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · Other+45 more: $2,812,652 · Other+45 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,790,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN …The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,726,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint …FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $517,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFE…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $387,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHN…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $219,500 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · International+3 more: $146,000 · InternationalDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,188,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY O…THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $963,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTIT…INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $860,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER…DETROIT OPERA: $225,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT OPERA+5 more: $275,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $2,105,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERA…HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $440,000 · PhilanthropyHEBREW FREE L…+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $1,320,000 · HealthKIDS KICKI…HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $420,000 · HealthHENRY FORD…DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $130,000 · HealthDR GARY BU…+2 more: $55,000 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $662,500 · Human ServicesJARC: $300,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC: $190,000 · Human Services+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $103,500 · EducationMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER: $37,500 · EducationWINDWARD SCHOOL: $32,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationBEYOND BASICS: $18,000 · EducationJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10,000 · Education
Other$7,144,062International$4,985,500Arts & Culture$3,511,500Philanthropy$2,555,000Health$1,925,000Human Services$1,172,500Education$231,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,325,000 over 6y, 78% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $2,105,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,790,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,726,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $1,320,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,188,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $963,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $860,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $662,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $517,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $440,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $420,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $387,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJARC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $219,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC: $190,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSIX RIVERS LAND CONSERVANCY FKA SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $185,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $173,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $140,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $130,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $130,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $115,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC: $105,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSOLDIER ON INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $103,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $101,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN COMMUNICATIONS GROUP: $86,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetKADIMA: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC: $52,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY: $50,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER: $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $34,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWINDWARD SCHOOL: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH STAR REACH: $25,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRESENT NOW: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% 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 University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds JARC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SIX RIVERS LAND CONSERVANCY FKA SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOLDIER ON INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST 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.

The Andrea and Lawren…Edward C and Linda Dr…United Jewish Foundat…George M and Jo Elyn …Marjorie and Maxwell …Community Foundation …The Eugene Applebaum …DTE Energy FoundationThe Gilbert Family Fo…The Kresge FoundationJonathan and Beth Low…Robt & Gail Katz Fami…
The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family FoundationMI30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Gilbert Family Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation · Robt & Gail Katz 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 Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 83%
  • Soldier On Inc: 83% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 86 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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