· Private foundation
The Samuel & Jean Frankel Health and Research 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of THE SAMUEL & JEAN FRANKEL HEALTH AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $600,000 |
| HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN (STATE OF MICHIGAN) | $500,000 |
| CHRONS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $50,000 |
| GLEANERS | $50,000 |
| FAR CONSERVATORY | $50,000 |
| BEAR HUG FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $25,000 |
| JEWISH SENIOR LIFE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| JARC | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| AFMDA | $5,000 |
| KIDS KICKING CANCER | $5,000 |
| DETROIT RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $670k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +202% · 60% of their budget
- COCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +48%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM6× · 2019–2024 · $380k · revenue +252%
Funded once
- OUOAKLAND UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $30k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +39%- CMCAMP MAK-A-DREAM (FRIENDS OF CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY)one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
We honor life through donation.
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…
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
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.…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
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.…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 58 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds THE BEAR-HUG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds SANCTUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
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- Who funds ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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: George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Deroy Testamentary Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Donald R and Esther Simon Foundation · Pappas Foundation Inc
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 Samuel & Jean Frankel Health and Research Foundation 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.
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.
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