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Zlotoff Generations Fund
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $386k
- $250k+1 grant · $495k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZLOTOFF FOUNDATION | $495,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $150,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $110,950 |
| CHECKERED FLAG CHALLENGE | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MICHIGAN ISRAEL BUSINESS ACCELERATOR | $10,000 |
| BLOOMFIELD HILLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SPEED | $10,000 |
| SHIFT UP NOW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CROSS PURPOSE | $7,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $6,500 |
| PONTIAC TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| TAMARACK CAMPS | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM5× · 2017–2021 · $300k · revenue +69%
- HFHAVEN FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +762%
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $35k
- YAYANKEE AIR MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $25k
- WOWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INCone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -20%
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 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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The institute for protein innovation is advancing protein science to accelerate research and improve human health.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Museum of American Speed. 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 34 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 82 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 ZLOTOFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Dream Centers of Michigan ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Museum of American Speed ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ISRAEL BUSINESS ACCELERATOR ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds REACHING HIGHER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PONTIAC TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Building Burlingtons Future Corporation ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Zlotoff Generations Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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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