· Private foundation
David and Hilda Fins 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| ARCADIA UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA CAMP SIZANANI | $2,000 |
| THE DALTON SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (AKA IRC) | $2,000 |
| ADL | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $2,000 |
| HIAS | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL NETWSOSRK OF ABORTION FUNDS | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BOBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +296%
BARNARD COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +60%- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- PPPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +25%
- CFCT FUND FOR THE ENVIRONEMENTone grant, 2018 · $1k
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +141%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Ctc Ten Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE USA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds CTC TEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David and Hilda Fins Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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