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The Driker Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$258k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$130kReligion$121kEducation$107kEmployment$25kFood & Nutrition$7kHuman Services$5kAnimals$5kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $178k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Michigan League for Public Policy: $450 → 9%Michigan League for Public Policy: $250 → 9%jewish family service: $1k → 8%asylum seekers advocacy project: $1k → 17%jewish family service: $322 → 8%jewish family service: $175 → 8%jsl foundation: $250 → 8%jsl foundation: $250 → 8%jsl foundation: $250 → 8%jarc: $1k → 8%jarc: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$371k · 41 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
39

Total granted

$371k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+63%

Still filing today

56%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • NY
    NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $92k · revenue +74%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • MD
    MI Dept of Natural Wildlife
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • UW
    united way of se michigan
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • JF
    justice for state employees legal d
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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 Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Jewish Historical Society of Michigan

Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.

—
4
Jfa Non-Profit Housing Corporation

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

Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
United Jewish Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
7
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…

—
8
Jas Non-Profit Housing Corporation Vi

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

Housing & Shelter
9
Jewish Home and Aging Services

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

—
10
Jewish Apartments and Services Inc

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…

Human Services
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 87 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

wayne state university: $103,451 · Otherwayne state universitysholem aleichem institute: $63,630 · Othersholem aleichem instituteTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $40,612 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELhillel of metro detroit: $10,836 · Other+60 more: $36,537 · Other+60 moreNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $91,600 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INCTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $25,015 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTSHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $6,140 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $3,725 · Arts & CultureGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $25,000 · EmploymentJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1,747 · Human ServicesJARC: $1,250 · Human ServicesASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesJSL FOUNDATION: $750 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $700 · Human Services+1 more: $75 · Human ServicesGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $4,250 · Food & NutritionJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $1,600 · PhilanthropyJewish Education for Every Person: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $100 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,750 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100 · International
Other$255,066Arts & Culture$126,480Employment$25,000Human Services$5,522Food & Nutrition$4,250Philanthropy$2,700International$1,850

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 budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $91,600 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $25,015 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $6,140 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1,747 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYAD EZRA: $1,530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJARC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Education for Every Person: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDetroit Bar Association Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK: $750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJSL FOUNDATION: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKADIMA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAZON INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $187 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER THRIVERS NETWORK: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUM HOUSE INC: $75 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Ben N Teitel Charitab…Marjorie and Maxwell …The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Ford PhilanthropyThe Eugene Applebaum …The Kresge FoundationClarence & Jack Himme…Donald R and Esther S…Marvin and Betty Dant…Woll-Yellin Family Fo…The Andrea and Lawren…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Driker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Driker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Driker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Driker Family 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 87 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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