· Private foundation
The Samuel and Jean Frankel Jewish Heritage 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: 71% of THE SAMUEL AND JEAN FRANKEL JEWISH HERITAGE 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 $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $938k
- $250k+7 grants · $29M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | $25,289,785 |
| NISTAR | $1,125,000 |
| MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT | $496,604 |
| V HECHZAKTA BO | $350,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND | $325,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SINAI TRUST | $250,000 |
| MIRIAM'S WELL -- BE'ER MIRIAM | $225,000 |
| YAD EZRA | $215,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $179,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-ENDELMAN & GITELMAN FUND | $130,000 |
| B'NAI BRITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION | $75,000 |
| NCSY | $64,000 |
| HEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF ANN ARBOR | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HILLEL | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $3.4M) 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.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- MHMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +27% · 28% of their budget
- HDHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT7× · 2017–2023 · $13M · revenue +59% · 61% of their budget
- NNISTAR4× · 2021–2024 · $3.3M · revenue ×11 · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- NSNEW SCHOOL IN ISRAELone grant, 2022 · $2.3M
- TRTALI RA'ANANA SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2.3M
- CBCONGREGATION BETH TESILO EMMANUAL TIKVAHone grant, 2020 · $80k
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.
Religious School
A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.
Furtherance of jewish education
Support higher jewish education
The association provides financial assistance to jewish people in the state of michigan through the lending of money without interest in accordance with core jewish values, respect, compassion, and confidentiality.
To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
To further jewish education in israel
To ignite jewish passion and empower every jew to embrace their heritage, thereby ensuring the vibrant continuity of the jewish epople.
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 44 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 MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds NISTAR ↗
- Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds V'HECHZAKTA BO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SINAI TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA HAKAYITZ OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HATZALAH OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHESED PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Detroit · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Karp Family Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation · Schostak Family Support Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family 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 and Jean Frankel Jewish Heritage 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% of income from government
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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