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The Samuel & Jean Frankel Health and Research Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$6.0MCrime & Legal$615kHuman Services$562kInternational$390kRecreation & Sports$237kHousing & Shelter$194kPhilanthropy$125kFood & Nutrition$77kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GALILEE MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
DETROIT RESCUE MISSION$5,000
LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $20k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $20k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $20k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 8%JARC: $110k → 8%JARC: $100k → 8%JARC: $100k → 8%JARC: $50k → 8%JARC: $25k → 8%JARC: $25k → 8%JARC: $10k → 8%JARC: $10k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 45 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
9

Total granted

$8.1M
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+64%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalReligionInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +202% · 60% of their budget
  • CO
    CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +40%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    6× · 2019–2024 · $380k · revenue +252%

Funded once

  • OU
    OAKLAND UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • CM
    CAMP MAK-A-DREAM (FRIENDS OF CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY)
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

1
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

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…

Health
2
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

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.…

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3
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan

We honor life through donation.

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4
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
5
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

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…

Health
6
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
7
Highmark Health

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.

Health
8
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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9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Delta Dental Fund

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.

—
11
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 58 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN (STATE OF MICHIGAN): $2,550,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF MICHIGAN (STATE OF MICHIGAN)University of Michigan: $1,390,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganCHRONS & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $370,000 · OtherCHRONS & COLITIS FOUNDATIONFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS: $335,000 · OtherFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTSPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $240,000 · Other+31 more: $695,000 · Other+31 moreJARC: $430,000 · Human ServicesJARCMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $175,000 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN L…SANCTUM HOUSE INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUM HO…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $55,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAM…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $650,000 · Crime & LegalCAREHOUSE…+1 more: $15,000 · Crime & LegalAmerican Diabetes Association: $320,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY: $50,000 · HealthKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $25,000 · HealthDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $22,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Health+5 more: $42,500 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $380,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalTHE BEAR-HUG FOUNDATION INC: $217,000 · Recreation & SportsJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $125,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$5,580,000Human Services$800,000Crime & Legal$665,000Health$480,000International$390,000Recreation & Sports$217,000Philanthropy$140,000

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 budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,390,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $650,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetJARC: $430,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $380,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS: $335,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $320,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEAR-HUG FOUNDATION INC: $217,000 over 8y, 61% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $175,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSANCTUM HOUSE INC: $130,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $105,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $55,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY: $50,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $26,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYAD EZRA: $21,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSKY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗
  • Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
  • Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES 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.

George M and Jo Elyn …Community Foundation …Michigan Health Endow…Harold and Penny B Bl…Deroy Testamentary Fo…United Jewish Foundat…United Way for Southe…The Andrea and Lawren…Marjorie and Maxwell …The Kresge FoundationDonald R and Esther S…Pappas Foundation Inc
George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable TrustMI26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Samuel & Jean Frankel Health and Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel & Jean Frankel Health and Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    8report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Samuel & Jean Frankel Health and Research Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Samuel & Jean Frankel Health and Research 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 58 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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