· Private foundation
The Howard and Jennifer Michaels Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $38,333 |
| ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $18,000 |
| LA'ARETZ | $15,000 |
| JEWNITED EMPOWERED WE STAND INC | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $13,600 |
| CHANGE SUMMER | $6,000 |
| WOMENS INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| THE WRITING REVOLUTION INC | $2,500 |
| CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| BATSHEVA | $1,000 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN | $1,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +37%
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC2× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +90%
- CSCHANGE SUMMER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +227%
Funded once
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM - ICAHNone grant, 2022 · $25k
- NLNYU LANGONE HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $20k
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +34%
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.
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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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 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 RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE SUMMER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ASPHALT GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds LA-ARETZ ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Young Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WRITING REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Howard and Jennifer Michaels Family Foundation Inc 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.
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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