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The Jeffrey Farber Family Foundation at a glance

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The Jeffrey Farber Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$497k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$2.5MReligion$2.0MEducation$469kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$15kAnimals$8kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $194k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METR$250,000
ORT AMERICA$194,250
EMPOWERMENT PLAN$10,000
SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MCF$5,000
HIGHER HOPES$5,000
NOTTINGHAM NATURE NOOK$5,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD B$5,000
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER$2,500
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 (FY19–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $3k → 6%HIGHER HOPES: $5k → 8%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $10k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $5k → 21%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $3k → 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.
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 4 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$2.7M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+49%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FED OF METRO DETROIT
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2.2M
  • OA
    ORT AMERICA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $444k · revenue -24%
  • KIDS KICKING CANCER INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH FOUND OF METRO DETRO
    one grant, 2017 · $1.9M
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +130%
  • GC
    GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -22%
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
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
2
Michigan Israel Business Accelerator Foundation

Mibaf has adopted a mission to advance michigan's innovation ecosystem, one israeli connection at a time.

Community Improvement
3
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

—
4
Michigan B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation Inc

Provides religious cultural and social services to students at the university of michigan

—
5
Hebrew Free Loan Association

The association provides financial assistance to jewish people in the state of michigan through the lending of money without interest in accordance with core jewish values, respect, compassion, and confidentiality.

Philanthropy
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
7
Michigan Israel Business Accelerator

Accelerating michigan's economic growth, one israeli innovation at a time.

Community Improvement
8
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
9
Gesher Human Services

Gesher human services is a bridge to hope and opportunity for people at work, at home, and in the community. gesher's workforce development, behavioral health, and inclusion programming serves all metro detroiters while meeting the needs…

Employment
10
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

—
11
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
12
Jfa Non-Profit Housing Corporation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 826 Michigan Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FED OF METRO DETROIT: $2,196,116 · OtherJEWISH FED OF METRO DETROITUNITED JEWISH FOUND OF METRO DETRO: $1,945,730 · OtherUNITED JEWISH FOUND OF METRO DETROORT AMERICA INC: $444,250 · OtherORT AMERICA INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF METR: $250,000 · Other+5 more: $30,000 · OtherKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $20,000 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $10,000 · HealthTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $15,000 · Human ServicesHIGHER HOPES: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $3,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2,500 · Human ServicesHospice of Michigan Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $5,000 · ReligionNOTTINGHAM NATURE NOOK: $5,000 · Animals
Other$4,866,096Health$30,000Human Services$26,500Education$20,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Religion$5,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetORT AMERICA INC: $444,250 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHER HOPES: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget826 MICHIGAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNOTTINGHAM NATURE NOOK: $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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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 Jeffrey Farber Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jeffrey Farber Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Jeffrey Farber Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jeffrey Farber 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 20 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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