Michigan · Private foundation
The Jerold and Ellen Minkin 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.
- $138k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $34,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $138k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $132k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $107k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $89k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $127k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $91k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $73k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $71k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $96,840 | 8 | 0% |
| Adat Shalom Synagogue | $27,470 | 8 | n/a |
| Ort America Inc | $27,245 | 9 | 0% |
| Hebrew Free Loan Association | $23,175 | 7 | 1% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $23,041 | 8 | 0% |
| Jarc | $16,550 | 9 | 0% |
| Yad Ezra | $15,159 | 9 | 0% |
| Michigan B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation Inc | $13,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service | $9,141 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $8,630 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($519k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Jewish Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Pappas Foundation Inc · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · David Kahan Family Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Jewish Federation of Detroit · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Minkin Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation
- How much does The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation give?
- The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $138,162 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (20%), Health (18%), Philanthropy (17%).
- Who are The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($97k), Adat Shalom Synagogue ($27k), Ort America Inc ($27k).
- Does The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Jewish Foundation, The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation, Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation.
- Where is The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation based?
- The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation is based in MI.
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