Michigan · Nonprofit
UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION
UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,059,877 to it, the largest being SAMUEL FRANKEL AND JEAN FRANKEL SUPPORT FOUNDATION ($33,053,505). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year. UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION 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
UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION 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 programUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION 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
$415M
Recipients
742
Contributions on record
$137M
Donors on record
48
Payments out run 3.0x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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.
- Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundationshared funders
- Deroy Testamentary Foundationshared funderslocal
- Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy 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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 11 funders, grant income fell $4.7M → $2.4M.
3 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $68M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
100% of UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Deroy Testamentary Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you
- Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- The Ravitz Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Hudson-Webber Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- McGregor Fundshared fundersMI · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Jewish Community Foundation of Orange Countyshared fundersCA · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- The Skillman Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Ford Philanthropyshared fundersMI · backs 69 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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
- Jewish Federation of Detroit · 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 UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: 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 UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION?
- UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,059,877 to it, the largest being SAMUEL FRANKEL AND JEAN FRANKEL SUPPORT FOUNDATION ($33,053,505). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year. UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION 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 UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $69,059,877 in grants to UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION?
- SAMUEL FRANKEL AND JEAN FRANKEL SUPPORT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $33,053,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION 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 37funders 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