· Private foundation
Woll-Yellin Family 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 $10k58 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISSAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE | $350,000 |
| HEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF ANN ARBOR | $110,000 |
| THE TIKVAH FUND | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| JEWISH FED OF METRO DETROIT | $7,500 |
| JEWISH HOSPICE AND CHAPLAINCY | $6,600 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBU | $5,400 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS ALYN HOSPITAL | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| AMERICAN COMM FOR SHAARE ZEDEK | $3,600 |
| NE'EMAN FDN USA | $3,600 |
| COLEL CHABAD | $3,600 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $3,600 |
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, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 59 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- HDHebrew Day School of Ann Arbor3× · 2022–2024 · $310k · revenue +56%
- CFCentral Fund of Israel7× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +145%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAM SVC OF METRO DETROITone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DIST COMone grant, 2022 · $5k
- JKJVS & KADIMAone 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 agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
To provide assistance to organizations in the old city of jerusalem and the ancient city of david.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
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…
To further jewish education in israel
To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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 36 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 32% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 173 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 Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DVI ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Caravan to Class ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MENACHEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
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: United Jewish Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · David Kahan Family Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman 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 Woll-Yellin Family 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.