Michigan · Nonprofit
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 195 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,668,913 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($30,025,000). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year. JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$368M
Recipients
137
Contributions on record
$270M
Donors on record
219
Payments out are 1.36x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hudson-Webber Foundationshared funders
- The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundationshared funders
- The Carls Foundationshared funders
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.
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 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 23% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 62 funders to 100 funders, grant income rose $3.9M → $19M.
19 of 195 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $162M from 25 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Jewish Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT raised.
From the IRS filings of JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 195 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.
Where its funders are
96% of JEWISH FEDERATION OF 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. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 195 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hudson-Webber Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- The Carls Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- The Skillman Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 100 organizations that share your funders
- Jewish Community Foundation of Orange Countyshared fundersCA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Michigan Health Endowment Fundshared fundersMI · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared fundersIL · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Comerica Charitable Trustshared fundersMI · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJshared fundersNJ · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Circle of Service Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 102 organizations that share your funders
- Jewish Community Foundation of San Diegoshared fundersCA · backs 132 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 54 related entities
- United Jewish Foundation · exempt
- The Jewish Fund · exempt
- Applebaum Family Support Foundation · exempt
- Barnett Family Support Foundation · exempt
- Belle & Isidor Eisenberg Family Support Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT?
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 195 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,668,913 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($30,025,000). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year. JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT have?
- IRS filings report 195 organizations giving $108,668,913 in grants to JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT, 138 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT?
- William Davidson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH FEDERATION OF 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.
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 195funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing