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Ran Family Foundation at a glance

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Ran 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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$12kPhilanthropy$11kEducation$6kInternational$3kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$900Food & Nutrition$600Health$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$145
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$4,000
ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER$2,000
ORT AMERICA$1,800
UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION$1,225
TEMPLE ISRAEL$1,200
YAD EZRA$500
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA$468
PLAY FOR PINK$200
Individual grant recipient$154
CAMP MAKE-A-DREAM$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PLAY FOR PINK: $200 → 17%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $100 → 14%YAD EZRA: $500 → 8%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY: $100 → 21%PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA: $468 → 7%EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%FORGOTTEN HARVEST: $100 → 8%HILLEL OF METRO DETROIT: $2k → 21%PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA: $384 → 7%DAVID HORODOKER ORGANIZATION: $280 → 8%HILLEL OF METRO DETROIT: $2k → 21%PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA: $382 → 7%DAVID HORODOKER ORGANIZATION: $280 → 8%DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $100 → 21%PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA: $360 → 7%DAVID HORODOKER ORGANIZATION: $254 → 8%PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA: $320 → 7%DAVID HORODOKER ORGANIZATION: $200 → 8%PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA: $252 → 7%DAVID HORODOKER ORGANIZATION: $180 → 8%DAVID HORODOKER ORGANIZATION: $154 → 8%CAMP MAKE-A-DREAM: $100 → 8%CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $200 → 8%JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION: $4k → 8%JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION: $3k → 8%ORT AMERICA: $2k → 8%ORT AMERICA: $2k → 8%ORT AMERICA: $1k → 8%UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $1k → 8%UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $612 → 8%DETROIT 2 NEPAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%ORT AMERICA: $300 → 8%FRIENDS OF CAMP MAKE A DREAM: $700 → 8%CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK: $4k → 8%CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK: $1k → 8%CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK: $1k → 8%CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK: $1k → 8%DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION: $118 → 8%ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER: $2k → 8%HILLEL DAY SCHOOL: $350 → 8%EMILY STILLMAN FOUNDATION: $50 → 8%JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50 → 8%KADIMA: $100 → 8%DEROY TESTAMENTARY FOUNDATION: $50 → 8%KADIMA: $50 → 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 7 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$26k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-21%
+34%

Still filing today

43%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
InternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • CS
    CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK
    4× · 2020–2024 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2025 · $7k
  • OA
    ORT AMERICA INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • DF
    DETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +88%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CAMP MAKE A DREAM
    one grant, 2020 · $700
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $500
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
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
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
5
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…

—
6
Jsl Foundation

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

Human Services
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
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
9
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
10
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
11
Leonard and Diane Sherman Family Foundation

The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational and/or religious purpose of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, and the foundation as authorized in…

Philanthropy
12
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Deroy Testamentary Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 29 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)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK: $7,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEKIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientORT AMERICA INC: $5,150 · OtherORT AMERICA INCHILLEL OF METRO DETROIT: $4,000 · OtherHILLEL OF METRO DETROITIndividual grant recipient: $1,348 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROIT: $1,200 · Other+12 more: $2,625 · Other+12 moreUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $6,213 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $5,100 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROITPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $2,166 · InternationalDETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · InternationalHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC: $118 · Arts & CultureHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $350 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $100 · EducationPLAY FOR PINK INC: $200 · Crime & LegalCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $200 · Crime & LegalFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$27,823Philanthropy$11,313International$3,166Arts & Culture$2,118Education$450Crime & Legal$400Food & Nutrition$100

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $6,213 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $5,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $2,166 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKADIMA: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC: $118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEROY TESTAMENTARY FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMILY STILLMAN FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $25 over 1y, 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.

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.

Alan Jay and Sue Kauf…Grosfeld FoundationHarold and Penny B Bl…Shari & Alon Friendsh…Robt & Gail Katz Fami…Barron Family Foundat…The Bruce H and Rosal…Ben N Teitel Charitab…The Eugene Applebaum …Marjorie and Maxwell …William Davidson Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman FoundationMI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · Robt & Gail Katz Family Foundation · Barron Family Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · William Davidson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Ran Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ran Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 29 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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