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Merton J & Beverly Segal Support Foundation at a glance

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Merton J & Beverly Segal Support Foundation

To support the jewish community and the community as a whole.

$131k
Granted FY2017
10
Grants FY2017
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of Merton J & Beverly Segal Support Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to United Jewish Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Merton J & Beverly Segal Support Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $112k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
5
’18
4
’19
7
’20
1
’21
2
’22
1
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.6MHealth$148kReligion$87kArts & Culture$49kHuman Services$38kEducation$23kAnimals$5k
02FY2017 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $111,815, the rows itemized in this filing. The $131,311 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,496 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$624k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT$25,000
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$24,210
WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL$15,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL$12,605
PINK FUND INC$10,000
JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK$5,000
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY$5,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH$5,000
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$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 (FY17–22, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $8k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 7 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2017, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$303k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+18%

Still filing today

57%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionEducationOther
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

  • WB
    WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $69k · revenue +0%
  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +78%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $32k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +15%
  • BH
    BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -46%
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
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
3
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
4
Jsl Foundation

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

Human Services
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Jewish Historical Society of Michigan

Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.

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7
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
8
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
10
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
11
Jas Non-Profit Housing Corporation Vi

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

Housing & Shelter
12
Jewish Home and Aging Services

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

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Motown Historical Musuem 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $1,075,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $451,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT+2 more: $75,000 · PhilanthropyWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL: $68,500 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $47,815 · HealthPINK FUND INC: $15,000 · HealthBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,525 · HealthTEMPLE BETH EL: $87,054 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherJEWISH SENIOR LIFE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $5,000 · OtherTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $32,260 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $6,250 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $37,500 · Human ServicesCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $8,114 · EducationMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $5,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$1,601,000Health$137,840Other$107,054Arts & Culture$48,510Human Services$37,500Education$8,114Animals$5,000Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $1,075,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $451,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL: $68,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $47,815 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $32,260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $8,114 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Merton J & Beverly Segal Support Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merton J & Beverly Segal Support Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Merton J & Beverly Segal Support Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Merton J & Beverly Segal Support 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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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