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Sinai Medical Staff 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC | $30,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION - ARCHIVES | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan2× · 2019–2020 · $186k · revenue +140% · 47% of their budget
- FAFRESH AIR SOCIETY4× · 2021–2024 · $133k · revenue +73%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE3× · 2022–2024 · $83k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- HFHENRY FORD MEDICAL GROUPone grant, 2017 · $50k
LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +46%- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE OF METRO DETROITone grant, 2022 · $29k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
Creating healthy communities - together
Mission is to represent the interests and professional needs of psychiatric physicians in michigan while striving to ensure quality care for people with mental disorders and their families through promotion of education, research and…
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Creating healthy communities - together
Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Creating healthy communities - together
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds KADIMA ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Madonna University ↗
- Who funds AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds AFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Jewish Fund · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Dte Energy Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Carls Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation · Robt & Gail Katz Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sinai Medical Staff Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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