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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.

$136k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$136k50%
FY202315$65k0%
FY202220$81k10%
FY202117$57k6%
FY202016$46k0%
FY201916$62k19%
FY201814$44k7%
FY201715$51kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$450kReligion$176kHuman Services$97kFood & Nutrition$86kHealth$26kRecreation & Sports$22kYouth Development$20kEducation$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yad Ezra$66,50080%
Jewish Family Service$61,00080%
Fresh Air Society$22,00070%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$19,80070%
Temple Beth El$17,5007n/a
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network$15,00080%
Michigan Humane Society$10,00070%
Congregation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel$10,00010%
The Midnight Golf Program$10,00040%
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization$9,50070%
Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yad Ezra$66,50080%
Jewish Family Service$61,00080%
Fresh Air Society$22,00070%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$19,80070%
Temple Beth El$17,5007n/a
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network$15,00080%
Michigan Humane Society$10,00070%
Congregation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel$10,00010%
The Midnight Golf Program$10,00040%
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization$9,50070%
Penrickton Center for Blind Children$9,20080%
Detroit Historical Society$9,00070%
Hebrew Free Loan Association$5,00010%
Detroit Public Schools Foundation$4,00040%
Historic Elmwood Foundation$3,00022%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($270k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYad Ezra: $66,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Family Service: $61,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFresh Air Society: $22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $19,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCongregation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Midnight Golf Program: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetB'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $9,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHebrew Free Loan Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDetroit Public Schools Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Elmwood Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

The Eugene Applebaum Family FoundationMI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation

How much does The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation give?
The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $135,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (49%), Religion (19%), Human Services (11%).
Who are The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yad Ezra ($67k), Jewish Family Service ($61k), Fresh Air Society ($22k).
Does The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation, The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation, Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation.
Where is The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation based?
The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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