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Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$295k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$3.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$270k0%
FY202314$153k0%
FY202214$131k0%
FY202114$115k0%
FY202015$148k0%
FY201915$101k53%
FY20188$45k13%
FY20177$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$197kHealth$196kHuman Services$184kEmployment$108kEnvironment$85kInternational$77kFood & Nutrition$53kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Family Services$107,00081%
Public Television 19 Inc$85,00080%
Tourism Cares Inc$85,00035%
Safehome Inc$77,00080%
Operation Breakthrough Inc$77,00080%
Harvesters - the Community Food Network$53,00060%
The Children's Mercy Hospital$51,50060%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc$50,50060%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$46,00060%
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City$43,00080%
Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc$33,00060%
Wonderscope Inc$20,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($270k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Family Services: $107,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPublic Television 19 Inc: $85,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTourism Cares Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetSafehome Inc: $77,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Breakthrough Inc: $77,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHarvesters - the Community Food Network: $53,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $51,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $50,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $46,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Club of Greater Kansas City: $43,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Repertory Theatre Inc: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWonderscope Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Oppenstein Brothers FoundationMO17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Abe & Anna Bograd Memorial Trust 10030800 · V & H Charitable Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Seaboard Foundation · Truman Heartland Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation

How much does Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation give?
Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $295,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Health (19%), Human Services (18%).
Who are Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Family Services ($107k), Public Television 19 Inc ($85k), Tourism Cares Inc ($85k).
Does Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oppenstein Brothers Foundation, Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
Where is Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation based?
Brad & Linda Finkle Family Foundation is based in KS.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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