Jewish Federation of Greater
Ann Arbor, MI · EIN 38-2711480. Reported 94 grants totalling $5,614,957 to 43 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Jewish Federation of Greater, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T700).
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,370. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,050 and the largest $506,060. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Center Greater Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | $1,212,085 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $1,194,330 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Jewish Federations of North America Inc | New York, NY | $729,601 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | $502,783 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $293,453 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Eastern Michigan University Foundation | Ypsilanti, MI | $186,300 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lubavitch Foundation | Oak Park, MI | $179,851 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Temple Beth Emeth | Ann Arbor, MI | $144,407 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The St Louis Center | Chelsea, MI | $133,334 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Beth Isreal Congregation | Ann Arbor, MI | $105,594 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chabad Student Association Lubavitch Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Congregation Bnai Brith Hillel | East Lansing, MI | $73,490 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $72,181 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc | Sarasota, FL | $64,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yankee Air Force Incorporated | Belleville, MI | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | New York, NY | $54,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Good People Fund Inc | Millburn, NJ | $50,540 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United States Bridge Federation | Glenview, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Charleston Jewish Federation | Charleston, SC | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Agency for Israel-North American Council | New York, NY | $34,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Womens Archive Inc | Auburndale, MA | $25,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boca Raton Museum of Art Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jewish Historical Society of Michigan | Bloomfield Hills, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Food Gatherers | Ann Arbor, MI | $20,330 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Communities of Western | Southbury, CT | $20,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Conquer Cancer Fdn of the American Society of Clinical Oncology | Alexandria, VA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hand in Hand American Friends of Cntr for Jewish-Arab Edu in Israel | Portland, OR | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| You Gotta Believe the Older Child Adoption & Permanency Movement | New York, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $17,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community High School | W Bloomfield, MI | $16,928 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of | New York, NY | $11,550 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Lakelands Trail | Brighton, MI | $11,040 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Bethesda, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michigan Israel Business Accelerator | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Temple Shir Shalom | W Bloomfield, MI | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Embracing Our Differences Se Michigan Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kehillat Etz Chayim | Oak Park, MI | $5,660 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girls Group | Ann Arbor, MI | $5,350 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Ort Inc | New York, NY | $5,150 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
24 of 43 (56%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $933,276 | $25,000 |
| 2021 | 27 | $1,445,796 | $15,668 |
| 2022 | 26 | $1,580,462 | $26,302 |
| 2023 | 22 | $1,655,423 | $20,270 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
75% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,370 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Jewish Federation of Greater's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2939 Birch Hollow Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108.
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