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The Ravitz Foundation at a glance

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The Ravitz 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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$248k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$3.5MPhilanthropy$2.6MArts & Culture$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.3MCivil Rights$997kHuman Services$986kHealth$973kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $716k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
$18,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$247,500
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$136,000
HILLEL CAMPUS ALLIANCE OF MI$112,500
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$99,500
JEWISH SENIOR LIFE OF METRO DETROIT$90,000
MSU HILLEL$90,000
MSU HILLEL$90,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT$85,500
YAD EZRA$81,000
FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY$76,000
THE WELL$70,200
AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$67,500
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$45,000
HEBREW FREE LOAN$45,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $717k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 12%KALAMAZOO DREAM CENTER: $3k → 12%OUR HOUSE: $2k → 14%KALAMAZOO DREAM CENTER: $3k → 12%FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $5k → 21%KALAMAZOO DREAM CENTER: $3k → 12%KALAMAZOO DREAM CENTER: $3k → 12%JARC: $25k → 8%JARC: $25k → 8%JARC: $25k → 8%JARC: $25k → 8%JARC: $24k → 8%JARC: $23k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $3k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $3k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $2k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $40k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $30k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $25k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $22k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $19k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $11k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
MD
NC
DC
AL
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 80 repeat orgs$935k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
54

Total granted

$14M
$696k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+44%

Still filing today

45%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k 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
Human ServicesInternationalHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +133%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $903k · revenue +78%
  • HF
    HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $593k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $140k
  • UO
    U OF M HILLEL
    one grant, 2022 · $81k
  • J
    JARCAJC
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
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
3
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
4
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
5
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
6
United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…

Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada

Religion
8
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
9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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11
The Jewish Federation of Nwi Inc

Enriching jewish life in northwest indiana, in israel and around the world through service, programming, advocacy and fundraising.

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12
Jsl Foundation

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

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Dr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic. 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

69 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. 69 of the 148 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
50/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAMARACK CAMPS: $990,000 · OtherTAMARACK CAMPSIndividual grant recipient: $735,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUniversity of Michigan: $591,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganHILLEL CAMPUS ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $577,500 · OtherHILLEL CAMPUS ALLIANCE OF MICHIGANYAD EZRA: $469,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HILLEL: $454,000 · OtherTHE WELL: $377,700 · OtherJEWISH SENIOR LIFE: $375,000 · OtherHILLEL OF METRO DETROIT: $352,500 · OtherHILLEL CAMPUS ALLIANCE OF MI: $336,750 · Other+102 more: $4,327,262 · Other+102 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $1,918,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $592,500 · PhilanthropyHEBREW FREE LOAN …PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $101,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $40,250 · PhilanthropyHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $1,777,500 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST M…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $903,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $14,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $278,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $211,750 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $142,250 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INC: $110,750 · InternationalITREK INC: $60,250 · International+5 more: $18,750 · InternationalJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $315,750 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $205,850 · Human ServicesJARC: $146,250 · Human Services+6 more: $49,000 · Human ServicesCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $216,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE: $132,250 · ReligionONETABLE INC: $23,500 · Religion+2 more: $2,250 · Religion
Other$9,585,962Philanthropy$2,652,750Arts & Culture$1,777,500Civil Rights$917,000International$821,750Human Services$716,850Religion$374,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $1,918,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $1,777,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $903,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $592,500 over 8y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $591,000 over 6y, 85% of budgetYAD EZRA: $469,250 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $315,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $282,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetKADIMA: $280,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $278,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $265,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $255,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $216,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $211,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $205,850 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $177,250 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $148,270 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJARC: $146,250 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $142,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $132,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG: $129,500 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $110,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $101,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidwest Camp Habonim aka Habonim Camp Tavor: $97,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $71,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetITREK INC: $60,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: $36,763 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $33,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC: $25,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ANN ARBOR: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONETABLE INC: $23,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMetro Food Rescue: $14,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFLINT JEWISH FEDERATION: $11,250 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKalamazoo Dream Center: $10,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetSANCTUM HOUSE INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTWELVE BASKETS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJackets for Jobs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH AIR SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALBION COLLEGE: $4,000 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 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds KADIMA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds JARC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Midwest Camp Habonim aka Habonim Camp Tavor ↗

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.

Marjorie and Maxwell …United Jewish Foundat…Harold and Penny B Bl…The Eugene Applebaum …Alan Jay and Sue Kauf…Grosfeld FoundationThe Andrea and Lawren…WK Kellogg FoundationThe Irving and Ethel …George M and Jo Elyn …Donald R and Esther S…Ben N Teitel Charitab…
Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey FoundationMI41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Donald R and Esther Simon Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    13report 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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    How do I get to The Ravitz Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ravitz Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 148 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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