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Finch 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY HENRY H AND LEAH N | $35,000 |
| THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CLARE BOOTHE LUCE POLICY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| OREGON FFA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION CU BOULDER LEEDS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $15,000 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SUMMIT LAND CONSERVANCY PARK CITY | $15,000 |
| USCNORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER- DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Finch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +148%
- YAYoung America's Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $88k · revenue +5%
- NANATIONAL ABILITY CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $77k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- MRMONICA ROS SCHOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +5%
- GWGEORGE WASHINGTONS MOUNT VERNON MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- VCVENTURA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +58%
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.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
To serve the land, people and wildlife by conserving california's working rangelands.
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Los padres forestwatch protects the los padres national forest and the carrizo plain national monument through education, advocacy, and when necessary, legal action for the benefit of our communities, climate and future generations.
The mission of the friends of the desert mountains is to preserve land, to support education, conservation and research in the coachella valley, and to act as the support organization for the santa rosa & san jacinto mountains national…
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and the most unlike its peers is Ventura County Sheriff S&R Volunteer Search & Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 95 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 THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MONICA ROS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OJAI VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ventura County Community Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Monimos Foundation · John J Moller Family Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Share a Smile Inc · Bruce and Marilyn Wallace Foundation · The Shanbrom Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Impactassetsinc
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 Finch 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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