· Private foundation
The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $60,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL WESTWOOD CEMETERY | $40,000 |
| MSU HILLEL | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL ARCHIVES | $6,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HILLEL | $5,000 |
| YAD EZRA | $5,000 |
| JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK | $2,000 |
| PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $1,300 |
| FRESH AIR SOCIETY | $1,200 |
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 (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
20 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- YEYAD EZRA8× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +42%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +168%
- FAFRESH AIR SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- HFHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +47%
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT - UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $5k
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 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…
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
To further the welfare of the jewish community
Jewish senior life of metropolitan detroit is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults of the metropolitan detroit jewish community through the provision of personalized high quality programs and services that support…
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is The Midnight Golf Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Historic Elmwood Foundation ↗
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 Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Cathy and James Deutchman Family Foundation · The Stone Foundation of Michigan · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation
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 Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin 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.
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