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The Grekin Family Foundation at a glance

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The Grekin 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.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$155kReligion$47kHealth$41kRecreation & Sports$27kFood & Nutrition$15kArts & Culture$13kEnvironment$8kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE ISRAEL T'HADIK NER$50,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$28,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
ORCAT$5,000
CONGREGATION OCEAN REEF$2,550
TEMPLE ISRAEL COLLEGE FUND$2,000
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$500
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 (FY17–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ADCS HARDSHIP TO HOPE FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%YATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS INC: $3k → 8%JARC: $650 → 8%JARC: $600 → 8%JARC: $525 → 8%JARC: $500 → 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

IL
MI
NY
IA
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$319k · 18 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
14

Total granted

$319k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+46%

Still filing today

72%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +70%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +40%
  • RC
    ROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $27k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • S
    SMU
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • DF
    DERMATOLOGY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • YF
    YATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -28%
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
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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2
American Academy of Dermatology Association Inc

To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…

Health
3
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
4
American Academy of Dermatology Inc

To assure that dermatologists have access to the highest quality education, research and innovations in the field, and that patients and the public have access to the highest quality medical and surgical dermatologic care and to…

Health
5
The Zachary & Elizabeth M Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation

The zachary and elizabeth m. fisher center for alzheimer's research foundation is dedicated to attacking the scourge of alzheimer's disease through a 3-pronged assault focused on understanding the cause of alzheimer's disease (ad),…

Health
6
University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

—
7
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
8
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
12
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

24 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. 24 of the 37 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE ISRAEL T'HADIK NER: $50,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL T'HADIK NERTEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROIT: $46,800 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROITROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $27,250 · OtherROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INCGROSS POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherGROSS POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATIONDES MOINES UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherDES MOINES UNIVERSITYSMU: $10,000 · OtherTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,550 · Other+15 more: $29,549 · Other+15 moreHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $123,000 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY+1 more: $3,500 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $27,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S D…Baptist Health Foundation Inc: $20,000 · HealthBaptist Healt…ALEX'S SAINTS FOUNDATION: $2,754 · HealthALEX'S SAINTS…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $13,500 · Food & NutritionDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $2,500 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureORCAT INC: $5,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT: $4,500 · AnimalsYATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS INC: $3,200 · Human ServicesADCS HARDSHIP TO HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesJARC: $2,275 · Human Services
Other$211,149Education$126,500Health$51,254Food & Nutrition$13,500Arts & Culture$12,500Animals$9,500Human Services$8,475

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 budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $123,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $27,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $27,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS INC: $3,200 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetADCS HARDSHIP TO HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetALEX'S SAINTS FOUNDATION: $2,754 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJARC: $2,275 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYAD EZRA: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 …United Jewish Foundat…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Jewish Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Grekin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grekin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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 Grekin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Grekin 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 37 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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