Michigan · Public charity
The Jewish Fund
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 community relations within the jewish community and with the general community; and to support the…
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $644,357
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $66M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Jewish Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $580k 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 | 37 | $2.2M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $3.3M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $3.3M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $2.3M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $2.0M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $2.8M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $2.4M | 34% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $2.5M | 42% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $6,529,635 | 9 | 7% |
| Fresh Air Society | $1,201,203 | 5 | 13% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $947,500 | 9 | 6% |
| Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue | $945,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Jarc | $775,685 | 8 | 2% |
| Friendship Circle | $667,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Jsl Foundation | $656,735 | 7 | 3% |
| Kadima | $607,563 | 6 | 7% |
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | $595,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Metro Solutions Inc | $540,000 | 5 | 2% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Jewish Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The Jewish Fund
- How much does The Jewish Fund give?
- The Jewish Fund reported 38 grants totaling $2,225,822 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jewish Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Human Services (31%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are The Jewish Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service ($6.5M), Fresh Air Society ($1.2M), Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network ($948k).
- Does The Jewish Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jewish Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Michigan Health Endowment Fund.
- Where is The Jewish Fund based?
- The Jewish Fund is based in MI.
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