· Public charity
The Jewish Fund
THE JEWISH FUND is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $537k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $644k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $644,357 |
| FRESH AIR SOCIETY | $175,000 |
| JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK | $165,000 |
| GESHER HUMAN SERVICES | $116,987 |
| YAD EZRA | $107,000 |
| ISAAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE | $85,000 |
| JARC | $81,939 |
| WAYNE COUNTY SAFE PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $55,000 |
| CARE HOUSE | $53,500 |
| DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| BIRTH DETROIT | $50,000 |
| HENRY ROAD HEALTH SYSTEM | $45,000 |
| METRO SOLUTIONS | $40,000 |
| AHAVAS CHESSED BIKUR CHOLIM | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $9.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +168%
- FAFRESH AIR SOCIETY5× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +14%
- JFJSL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $657k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- AHAUTHORITY HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $398k
- HOHATZALAH OF MICHIGANone grant, 2024 · $325k · revenue 0% · 70% of their budget
- WMWORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -12%
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 reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 115 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds JSL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KADIMA ↗
- Who funds METRO SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HATZALAH OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOTHERS BREASTFEEDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HEALTH EMERGENCY LIFELINE PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds Covenant Community Care Inc ↗
- Who funds LUELLA HANNAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds AVALON HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds HAZON 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 · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Carls Foundation · McGregor Fund
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 Jewish Fund 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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.