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The Driker Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| wayne state university | $100,500 |
| yiddish book center | $77,500 |
| gesher human services | $25,000 |
| detroit institute of arts | $25,000 |
| temple emanu-el | $25,000 |
| isaac agree downtown synagogue | $3,000 |
| zekelman holocaust center | $1,230 |
| aclu | $100 |
| cancer thrivers network | $100 |
| american friends of magen david ado | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
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 (FY20–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% 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.
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.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 34 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- NYNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $92k · revenue +74%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +47%- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MDMI Dept of Natural Wildlifeone grant, 2022 · $4k
- UWunited way of se michiganone grant, 2020 · $3k
- ASASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +194%
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
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.
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…
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…
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
Jewish senior life of metropolitan detroit is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults of the metropolitan detroit jewish community through the provision of personalized high quality programs and services that support…
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…
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Sanctum House Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 87 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 NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Bar Association Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds Jewish Education for Every Person ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JSL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Clarence & Jack Himmel Foundation · Donald R and Esther Simon Foundation · Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation · Woll-Yellin Family Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe 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 The Driker 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% 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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