Michigan · Nonprofit
JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,618,706 to it, the largest being THE SAMUEL AND JEAN FRANKEL JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ($2,950,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit does
Mission
Frankel jewish academy is a rigorous college preparatory high school pursuing academic excellence and jewish literacy. We inspire students to think critically, creatively, and compassionately; to dedicate themselves to jewish tradition, peoplehood, and the state of israel; and to become lifelong learners and leaders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The program services consist exclusively of educating high school students. The academy serves approximately 116 students in grades 9-12. With a dual- curriculum, students take secular subjects in 4 class periods and judaic subjects in 3 class periods. The new genesis lab brings science, technology, engineering, arts and math to life in many creative and engaging ways and integrated with all subjects. Students also take elective courses in arts, music, physical fitness, and more. Frankel jewish academy also has extra enrichment activities to build community including shabbat retreats for each grade, school dances, sports teams, and after school clubs.
$6,551,711 spentof which $2,155,894 as grants$3,865,581 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,551,711.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.0M to $40M (+878%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $55k → $285k.
5 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Jewish Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT raised.
From the IRS filings of JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 48% · 2019 92% · 2020 50% · 2021 92% · 2022 29% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT?
- JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,618,706 to it, the largest being THE SAMUEL AND JEAN FRANKEL JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ($2,950,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $4,618,706 in grants to JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT?
- THE SAMUEL AND JEAN FRANKEL JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing