· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MOTORSPORTS HALL OF FAMEOF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| BUILDING BURLINGTON'S FUTURE | $5,000 |
| PONTIAC TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM5× · 2017–2021 · $300k · revenue +69%
- HFHAVEN FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +762%
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +17%
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ISRAEL BUSINESS ACCELERATOR ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds REACHING HIGHER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Building Burlingtons Future Corporation ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zlotoff Generations Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zlotoff Generations Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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