· Private foundation
Stanley and Judith Frankel 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of STANLEY AND JUDITH FRANKEL FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $568k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,454,000 |
| PROJECT LEGACY | $100,000 |
| BAIS BROCHO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $72,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $72,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $72,000 |
| KOLLEL BNAI YESHIVAH | $72,000 |
| TALMUDICAL YESHIVAH OF PHILADELPHIA | $36,000 |
| CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF TROY | $36,000 |
| HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY | $36,000 |
| NEW MUSIC DETROIT | $20,000 |
| CONGRGATION BETH AHM | $18,000 |
| BONEI OLAM INC | $5,000 |
| MISSION OAKLAND - POLICE WEEK | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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 Michigan7× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +202% · 60% of their budget
- HDHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT6× · 2018–2025 · $455k · revenue +39%
- DPDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA5× · 2017–2023 · $440k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- BBBAIS BROCHO D'STOLIN KARLINone grant, 2023 · $500k
- OUOAKLAND UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- JHJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +8%
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.
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…
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…
Keren l'torah will promote jewish education in the greater detroit jewish community through classes, lectures, and distribution of written and audio materials. all educational opportunities by the corporation will be either free or at a…
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Yad Laniyim. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 69 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 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEGACY ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHESED PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Met Council Inc ↗
- Who funds LAHSER ROAD MIKVAH ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds YAD LANIYIM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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 Jewish Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Jewish Federation of Detroit · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Woll-Yellin Family Foundation · The Samuel and Jean Frankel Jewish Heritage Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation · Schostak Family Support Foundation · Pappas Foundation Inc
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 Stanley and Judith Frankel Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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