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The Wetsman 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT INSTITUE OF ARTS | $10,200 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MID AND SOUTH MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD | $10,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK | $5,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION | $4,500 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $1,500 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HADASSAH | $1,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 36% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 21 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS8× · 2017–2024 · $749k · revenue +46%- UOUniversity of Michigan6× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +202%
- MTMUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CFCHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MLMETAMORA LAND PRESERVATION ALLIANCEone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -33%
- WGWOMENS GUILD CEDARS-SINAIone grant, 2017 · $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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is The Group. 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 56 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 59 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 THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds METAMORA LAND PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CABARET 313 INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds KADIMA ↗
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: Ford Philanthropy · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · The Gilbert Family Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation · World Heritage Foundation · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Deroy Testamentary 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 Wetsman 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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