Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman
Bloomfield Hills, MI · EIN 38-2582289. Reported 108 grants totalling $2,795,239 to 53 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,600 and $30,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $165,450. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P E F Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $286,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $245,450 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Eastern Michigan University Foundation | Ypsilanti, MI | $210,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | Detroit, MI | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | Oak Park, MI | $165,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit, MI | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boulder Jewish Community Center | Boulder, CO | $115,079 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Metro Food Rescue | W Bloomfield, MI | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Michigan Humane Society | Detroit, MI | $83,260 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Friends of the Old City Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Food Share Inc | Louisville, CO | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit | Detroit, MI | $62,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools Inc | New York, NY | $58,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc | Hillside, NJ | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Women Who Weld | Westland, MI | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | W Bloomfield, MI | $51,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Congregation Shaarey Zedek | Southfield, MI | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Construction Education Trust | Sterling Hts, MI | $45,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City Harvest Inc | New York, NY | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Make Food Not Waste | Detroit, MI | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue | Detroit, MI | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Temple Israel of Detroit | W Bloomfield, MI | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Diploma Equity Project | Shelby Twp, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Ort Inc | New York, NY | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall Inc | Detroit, MI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friendship Circle | West Bloomfield, MI | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Funders Network | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Atlantic Impact | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bowery Residents Committee Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Emergency Family Assistance Association Inc | Boulder, CO | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Food Bank for New York City | Bronx, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Detroit Land Bank Community Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $23,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | Aurora, CO | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc | Boulder, CO | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Israel Fund | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Ann Arbor, MI | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Urban Alliance Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Composers Orchestra Inc | New York, NY | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bridge House | Boulder, CO | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Child and Family Advocacy Program | Boulder, CO | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Detroit Association of Black Organizations Dabo Inc | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County | Boulder, CO | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Michigan College Access Network | Lansing, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Remote Area Medical | Rockford, TN | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rose Community Foundation | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Detroit Jewish News Foundation Inc | Bloomfld Hls, MI | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Congregation Beth Chabad of Greater Downtown Detroit | Detroit, MI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
39 of 53 (74%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Wayne State University
$155,450 UNRESTRICTED - $10,000 LEVIN CENTER
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 48 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 24 | $745,500 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 44 | $835,860 | $10,500 |
| 2023 | 40 | $1,213,879 | $18,000 |
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
61% 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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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $15,000 -- 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 Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 48301.
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