· Private foundation
The Shiffman 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAIG BELL JEWEL LOTUS | $2,085 |
| CLEAN WATER FOR THE WORLD | $1,000 |
| FUND FOR EQUAL JUSTICE | $750 |
| GEEZ | $500 |
| PEOPLES WATER BOARD | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $220 |
| SUGAR LAW CENTER | $200 |
| ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $150 |
| JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS JFON-MI | $120 |
| MI INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE DETROIT | $100 |
| JESUIT CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN | $100 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION | $100 |
| LOST VOICES | $100 |
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 (FY17–21, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CWCLEAN WATER FOR THE WORLD4× · 2017–2023 · $1k · revenue +73%
KENYON COLLEGE2× · 2020–2022 · $600 · revenue +37%- CSCorner Shower and LaundryInc3× · 2019–2021 · $550 · revenue +7%
Funded once
- 1P1968 PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SPST PETERS EPISCOPAL CURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
- BCBOGGS CNTR COMM LEADone grant, 2017 · $700
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 Detroit Justice Center works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.
The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
To promote equality and inclusion in society.
Michigan Liberation is dedicated to the leadership development of community members and creation of effective campaigns to advance racial, gender and economic justice in Michigan
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
Michigan roundtable for just communities is a racial and social justice organization whose purpose is eradicate racism, discrimination, and systemic inequities by cultivating multigenerational just and beloved communities.
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
To build the political and economic power of low and moderate-income detroiters of color through neighborhood-driven community organizing and civic engagement in order to change public policy and communities for the better.
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
New detroit inc (the corporation) is a coalition of leaders working to achieve racial understanding and racial equity in metropolitan detroit. the corporations principal source of revenue is from grants and contributions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Public Media and the most unlike its peers is Clean Water for the World. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 97 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 FUND FOR EQUAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FOR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds Detroit Jews for Justice ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Corner Shower and LaundryInc ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COALITION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Sheldon Art Museum Archaeological and Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds GENERAL BAKER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COUNCIL FOR PEACE & JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
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: The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Shiffman 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.