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.

The Jewish Fund

The Jewish Fund at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

The Jewish Fund

THE JEWISH FUND is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes.

$2.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$644k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$8.3MHuman Services$8.2MPhilanthropy$2.0MEducation$1.9MReligion$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MHousing & Shelter$917kCommunity Improvement$618kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k24 grants · $537k
$50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
$250k+1 grant · $644k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$66M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$22M · 73 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$22M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

Still filing today

86%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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 FAMILY SERVICE
9× · 2017–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +168%
FA
FRESH AIR SOCIETY
5× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +14%
JH
JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK
9× · 2017–2025 · $948k · revenue +1%

Funded once

AH
AUTHORITY HEALTH
one grant, 2017 · $398k
HO
HATZALAH OF MICHIGAN
one grant, 2024 · $325k · revenue 0% · 70% of their budget
WM
WORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATED
one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -12%

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.

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…

Philanthropy

Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights

Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

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

Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

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.…

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Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health

Jewish Home and Aging Services

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

—

Mymichigan Health Foundation

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…

Health

Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service; 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.

04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 115 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

99/101

Grantees still filing

69/101

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$9,906,489Other$7,505,376Philanthropy$3,025,095Health$2,996,796Recreation & Sports$1,352,203Religion$971,550Education$590,345

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI94.7× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jewish Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jewish Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home