· Private foundation
The Gregg and Harriet Orley 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of The Gregg and Harriet Orley Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to United Jewish Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Gregg and Harriet Orley Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $138k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK | $105,080 |
| MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM | $18,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT | $10,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HEART TO HART DETROIT | $800 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $700 |
| YAD EZRA | $700 |
| HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER | $360 |
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 (FY17–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180 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
THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM4× · 2018–2021 · $66k · revenue +120%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +126%- CCCAP & CONQUER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UJUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION DETROITone grant, 2018 · $67k
- CHCLOVER HILL PARK CEMETARYone grant, 2019 · $50k
- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE OF METRO DETROITone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
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 Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
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.
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
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.
The federation provides and inspires philanthropic leadership and community-building to nurture a strong, engaged, connected, vibrant, and enduring jewish community locally, in israel, and around the world.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
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…
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…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Morongo Basin Cultural Arts Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 52 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 UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds CAP & CONQUER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds HEART 2 HART DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CABARET 313 INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds NXTHVN INC ↗
- Who funds MORONGO BASIN CULTURAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
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: The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Karp Family Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Pappas Foundation Inc
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 Gregg and Harriet Orley 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Nxthvn Inc — 1% 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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