· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| MI INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT | $100 |
| THE LAMBOLA DKE ALUMNI AS | $100 |
| CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE DETROIT | $100 |
| JESUIT CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN | $100 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +48%
Funded once
- 1P1968 PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SPST PETERS EPISCOPAL CURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
- BCBOGGS CNTR COMM LEADone grant, 2017 · $700
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 97 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 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 THE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shiffman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shiffman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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