· Private foundation
The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable 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, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $9,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $7,000 |
| CHABAD OF BINGHAM FARMS | $2,000 |
| JEWISH HOSPICE AND CHAPLAINCY NETWORK | $2,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $1,031 |
| CHABAD OF TRAVERSE CITY | $1,000 |
| ACCESS TO BANKRUPTCY COURT | $1,000 |
| TAMARACK CAMPS | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +34% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +31%
- MBMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +34%
- JRJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- JWJEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k
- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFEone grant, 2022 · $1k
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTSone grant, 2022 · $1k · 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 mission of hillel is to maximize the opportunities for jews to participate in jewish life at michigan state university.
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
Education opportunity for the jewish community
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 jewish federation of grand rapids strengthens and unifies the jewish community and functions as an umbrella organization to provide for the cultural, social and financial needs of our community, world jewry and the state of israel.
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
The Organization operates an religious outreach center to promote and understand Judaism and the laws of Kosher.
To further the welfare of the jewish community
The Organization provides religious and educational programs geared towards young Jewish professionals.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
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: Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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