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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $651,008 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($250,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.5M
Revenue FY2024
41
Funders on record
$651k
Grants received
$258k
Net assets
19/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)55% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($70k) Expenses 100 ($229k) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 367 ($258k) Expenses 105 ($240k) Net assets 95 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 433 ($304k) Expenses 100 ($230k) Net assets 112 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 1783 ($1.3M) Expenses 338 ($775k) Net assets 67 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 2171 ($1.5M) Expenses 914 ($2.1M) Net assets 38 ($824k)2022 Revenue 2163 ($1.5M) Expenses 746 ($1.7M) Net assets 30 ($653k)2023 Revenue 2136 ($1.5M) Expenses 747 ($1.7M) Net assets 20 ($437k)2024 Revenue 2156 ($1.5M) Expenses 738 ($1.7M) Net assets 12 ($258k)
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Revenue (2156)Expenses (738)Net assets (12)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

17% of THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$159k
’17
$18k
’18
$74k
’19
$477k
’20
−$574k
’21
−$193k
’22
−$216k
’23
−$179k
’24
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $4k → $45k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
6
11
8
16
17
9
7
8
6

2 of 41 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: $622k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 43% · 2019 37% · 2020 49% · 2021 46% · 2022 79% · 2023 56% — 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

31% of THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

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 41 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

United Jewish Foundation85%Jewish Federation of Detroit85%Detroit Jews for Justice84%Jewish Home Services Inc83%Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit83%The Jewish Fund83%Jewish Home and Aging Services83%Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor82%

Nationally

Pittsburgh Jewish Publication & Education Foundation86%United Jewish Foundation85%Jewish Federation of Detroit85%Society of Professional Journalists Foundation Inc85%Jewish Funders Network84%Detroit Jews for Justice84%Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Prescott83%Jewish Home Services Inc83%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 15%Fundraising 11%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC: 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 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC?
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $651,008 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($250,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $651,008 in grants to THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC?
William Davidson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 41funders 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