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The D Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation at a glance

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The D Dan and Betty Kahn 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.

$10M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$48MPhilanthropy$9.0MHuman Services$1.8MReligion$1.4MInternational$1.1MFood & Nutrition$850kEducation$822kEnvironment$750kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $250k+1 grant · $10M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$103M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$10,000,000
CONGREGATION TCHIYAH$25,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF ANN ARBOR$18,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $905k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ANN ARBOR: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $300k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $300k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $100k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $50k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $25k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $25k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $25k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $25k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $5k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of The D Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 74%.

The D Dan and Betty Kahn Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56M · 29 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
16

Total granted

$56M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+26%

Still filing today

59%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionInternationalEmploymentOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    8× · 2017–2025 · $48M · revenue +202%
  • OA
    ORT AMERICA INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $551k · revenue +6%
  • KIDS KICKING CANCER INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $499k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue 0% · 34% of their budget
  • IA
    ISAAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • DP
    DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +55%
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
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

—
3
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
4
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
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
6
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
7
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
8
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

—
9
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

—
12
Jsl Foundation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; 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.
05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 49 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $47,725,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan+25 more: $5,810,716 · Other+25 moreUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $5,854,044 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH F…JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $2,011,150 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATI…HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyHEBREW FREE LOA…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $100,000 · International+3 more: $45,750 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $750,000 · Human ServicesHIGHER HOPES: $105,000 · Human ServicesJewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $475,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureINSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT: $100,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $499,000 · HealthDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALTH INC: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $13,750 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE SINAI TRUST: $200,000 · ReligionCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $160,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $18,000 · Religion
Other$53,535,716Philanthropy$8,865,194International$1,145,750Human Services$905,000Arts & Culture$710,000Health$587,750Religion$378,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $5,854,044 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $2,011,150 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetHAZON INC: $750,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $750,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $551,421 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $499,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $475,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SINAI TRUST: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $160,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetKADIMA: $155,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHIGHER HOPES: $105,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $104,253 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetJewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS GROUP: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetV'HECHZAKTA BO: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYAD EZRA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT HEALTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $18,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $17,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $8,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HAZON INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SINAI TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL ↗
  • Who funds KADIMA ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER HOPES ↗
  • Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor ↗
  • Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
  • Who funds V'HECHZAKTA BO ↗
  • Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HEALTH INC ↗

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.

The Eugene Applebaum …The Andrea and Lawren…Marjorie and Maxwell …Harold and Penny B Bl…The Ravitz FoundationUnited Jewish Foundat…The Irving and Ethel …Alan Jay and Sue Kauf…Grosfeld FoundationBen N Teitel Charitab…William Davidson Foun…Community Foundation …
The Eugene Applebaum Family FoundationMI28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Ravitz Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust · William Davidson Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

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 The D Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The D Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Project Health Inc: 19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The D Dan and Betty Kahn 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 49 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-PF 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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