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Jk Farber Family Foundation
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $45,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $32,000 |
| HIGHER HOPES | $15,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $15,000 |
| ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER | $12,500 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| NOTTINGHAM NATURE NOOK | $10,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD COMMUNITY COALITION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| ORT AMERICA MICHIGAN REGION | $10,000 |
| HILLEL DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $10,000 |
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, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 13 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2017–2024 · $347k · revenue +36%- BHBeaumont Health2× · 2022–2023 · $133k · revenue +154%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- MHMICHIGAN HUMANEone grant, 2022 · $255k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIESone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +25%
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.
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 detroit is the cornerstone of our jewish community. we are committed to taking care of the needs of the jewish people and building a strong and vibrant jewish future, in detroit, in israel and around the world.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
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.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Creating healthy communities - together
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
We honor life through donation.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 29 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 59 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 MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Beaumont Health ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HIGHER HOPES ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL ↗
- Who funds 826 MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds NOTTINGHAM NATURE NOOK ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NFX ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Grosfeld Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation · Gilbert Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · The Barton Malow 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 Jk Farber 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.
- University of Miami — 5% 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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