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The Pilcowitz Family Foundation at a glance

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The Pilcowitz Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

65% of The Pilcowitz Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Detroit, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’19
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’20
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’22
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’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Recreation & Sports$216kPhilanthropy$135kReligion$65kArts & Culture$50kEducation$36kYouth Development$4kHealth$3kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$4,430
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT$110,000
BAIS CHABAD TORAH CENTER$35,879
FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ADAT SHALOM$4,430
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD-IN UNUM$2,000
HILLEL DAY SCHOOL$1,800
DYNAMI FOUNDATION$500
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$500
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$100
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHOAH FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD-IN UNUM: $2k → 17%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%BAIS CHABAD TORAH CENTER: $36k → 8%DYNAMI FOUNDATION: $500 → 21%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $500 → 14%SHOAH FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $10k → 8%DYNAMI FOUNDATION: $500 → 21%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY: $10k → 8%DYNAMI FOUNDATION: $250 → 21%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%CHAI CLUB - JEWISH SENIOR LIFE: $2k → 8%DYNAMI FOUNDATION: $250 → 21%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $750 → 8%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $500 → 8%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $500 → 8%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $500 → 8%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $500 → 8%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $500 → 8%THE EUGENE AND MARCIA APPLEBAUM FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%TAMARACK CAMPS: $143k → 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $110k → 8%TAMARACK CAMPS: $73k → 8%PITCH FOR DETROIT-JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $500 → 8%TAMARACK CAMPS: $100 → 8%SUSAN G KOMEN GREATER DETROIT - KOMEN RACE FOR THE CURE: $100 → 8%ADAT SHALOM: $15k → 8%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL: $5k → 8%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL: $5k → 8%ADAT SHALOM: $4k → 8%ADAT SHALOM: $4k → 8%ADAT SHALOM: $3k → 8%ADAT SHALOM: $3k → 8%HILLEL DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%HILLEL DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%HILLEL DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%ADAT SHALOM: $280 → 8%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL: $118 → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$336k · 10 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$336k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+24949%

Still filing today

30%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthOther
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

  • TC
    TAMARACK CAMPS
    3× · 2018–2023 · $216k
  • SF
    SHOAH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k
  • AS
    ADAT SHALOM
    6× · 2017–2024 · $29k

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EUGENE APPLEBAUM FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue ×250
  • CC
    CHAI CLUB - JEWISH SENIOR LIFE
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • PF
    PITCH FOR DETROIT-JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAMARACK CAMPS: $215,800 · OtherTAMARACK CAMPSSHOAH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSHOAH FOUNDATIONBAIS CHABAD OF WEST BLOOMFIELD: $35,879 · OtherBAIS CHABAD OF WEST BLOOMFIELDADAT SHALOM: $29,010 · OtherADAT SHALOMTHE EUGENE APPLEBAUM FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherTHE EUGENE APPLEBAUM FAMILY FOUNDATION+7 more: $16,818 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $110,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DET…JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $20,000 · EducationHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $5,400 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $2,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 · InternationalDYNAMI FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Health
Other$372,507Philanthropy$110,000Education$25,400International$2,500Health$1,500

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $5,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDYNAMI FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds THE EUGENE APPLEBAUM FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC ↗
  • Who funds DYNAMI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Pilcowitz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pilcowitz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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