· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +71% · 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
- TRTALI RA'ANANA SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2.3M
- NSNEW SCHOOL IN ISRAELone grant, 2022 · $2.3M
- CBCONGREGATION BETH TESILO EMMANUAL TIKVAHone grant, 2020 · $80k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Samuel and Jean Frankel Jewish Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel and Jean Frankel Jewish Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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