· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MISSION OAKLAND - POLICE WEEK | $5,000 |
| BONEI OLAM INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 24% of Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 DETROIT CHESED PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAHSER ROAD MIKVAH ↗
- Who funds Met Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds AISH HATORAH DETROIT ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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