Michigan · Public charity
Shaevsky Family Foundation
To support the jewish community and the community as a whole.
- $205k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $186k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $87,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Shaevsky Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $99k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $188k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $54k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $37k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $47k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $40k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $167,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $138,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Variety Club Charity for Children Dba Variety the Children's Charity | $68,850 | 7 | 1% |
| Oakland University | $30,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $30,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Community House Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Temple Beth El | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Detroit Public Media | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Shaevsky Family Foundation
- How much does Shaevsky Family Foundation give?
- Shaevsky Family Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $185,500, out of $204,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Shaevsky Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Arts & Culture (24%), Philanthropy (19%).
- Who are Shaevsky Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Regents of the University of Michigan ($168k), Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc ($138k), Variety Club Charity for Children Dba Variety the Children's Charity ($69k).
- Does Shaevsky Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shaevsky Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Shaevsky Family Foundation based?
- Shaevsky Family Foundation is based in MI.
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