Michigan · Nonprofit
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE (Michigan) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,220,244 to it, the largest being MARVIN AND BETTY DANTO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($662,500). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Jewish Family Service does
Mission
Inspired by the wisdom and values of jewish tradition we strengthen lives through compassionate service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Older adult services - provides a range of services focused on aging in place, including benefit access, geriatric care management, emergency financial assistance, access to homecare and kosher meals on wheels, assistive and social technology, door-through-door transportation, assistance to holocaust survivors, and health and wellness services.
$21,005,990 spentof which $16,331,078 as grants$709,080 earned by the program81% of program spendingMental health and wellness - provides behavioral health and psychiatric services; delivers community-based social work services in schools, youth groups and college organizations; coordinates community-wide efforts to address youth mental health, domestic abuse and addiction; addresses suicide risk through training, prevention and intervention efforts.
$2,571,623 spent$368,759 earned by the program10% of program spendingSafety net services - provides family support services, which focuses on helping community members gain self-sufficiency and meet basic needs; provides financial assistance for families for food, housing, utilities, transportation and medical needs; offers benefit access support to navigate government and community resources and successfully qualify for and maintain benefit programs; connects low-income uninsured members of the community to needed health care through navigation and referrals; provides information and referral services.
$1,835,651 spentof which $829,443 as grants7% of program spendingShared program support.
$635,374 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,048,638.
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 2024 to 2025, from $28M to $23M (−18%).
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: 2017 17% · 2018 13% · 2019 15% · 2020 14% · 2021 18% · 2022 10% · 2023 12% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Perry Ohren
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Marc Bakst
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $83k → $525k.
7 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $128M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE raised.
From the IRS filings of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 26% · 2019 16% · 2020 30% · 2021 24% · 2022 24% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“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
44% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
94% of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $580k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$811k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Jewish Federation of Detroit · exempt
- United Jewish Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE?
- JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE (Michigan) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,220,244 to it, the largest being MARVIN AND BETTY DANTO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($662,500). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $3,220,244 in grants to JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE?
- MARVIN AND BETTY DANTO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $662,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE 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 72 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