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Shaevsky Family Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

Shaevsky Family Foundation

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

$205k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$87k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$218kArts & Culture$151kPhilanthropy$118kHuman Services$69kHealth$46kCommunity Improvement$20kReligion$15k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $185,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $204,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,100 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $149k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT$87,000
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$62,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$15,000
DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA$12,500
VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC$9,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $105k → 14%DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $62k → 21%FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $35k → 14%DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $14k → 21%COMMUNITY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $15k → 14%DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HALL INC: $14k → 21%VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $17k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $8k → 14%DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 21%VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $15k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 14%DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 21%VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $12k → 8%DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 21%VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $11k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $9k → 8%DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 21%VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $5k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 21%DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $13k → 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $87k → 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $20k → 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $6k → 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $6k → 8%TEMPLE BETH EL: $5k → 8%TEMPLE BETH EL: $5k → 8%TEMPLE BETH EL: $5k → 8%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $31k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$455k · 7 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$455k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
0%

Still filing today

57%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $138k · revenue +22%
  • JA
    JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +71%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • BH
    BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $31k · revenue 0%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOUSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -68%
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 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
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
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
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
6
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
7
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
8
Detroit Athletic Club

To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.

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9
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
10
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
11
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
12
Dominican Hospital Foundation

The mission of the dominican hospital foundation is to ensure that philanthropic resources are available to respond to and support the changing health care needs of the people within the area served by dignity health dba dominican…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Community House 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $167,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANVARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $68,850 · OtherVARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE …OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $30,500 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITYTEMPLE BETH EL: $15,000 · OtherDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $138,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA…DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $12,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIAJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $118,400 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF …BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $20,000 · Education
Other$281,850Arts & Culture$150,500Philanthropy$118,400Health$45,500Community Improvement$20,000Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $138,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $118,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $68,850 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $12,500 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.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Shaevsky Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shaevsky Family 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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