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Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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81% of Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Council Of Greater La, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $34k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’21
4
’22
5
’23
9
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$729k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalAnimalsArts & CultureHealthOther
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 arriving13$28k77%
FY20237$48k43%
FY202210$32k60%
FY20218$42kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$120kPhilanthropy$113kInternational$24kHealth$19kReligion$14kAnimals$7kArts & Culture$5kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLetter of the Law Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrosted Faces Foundation Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaccabi USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Memorial Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTamid Israel Investment Group Ltd: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Israel Innovation Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThink of US: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Women's Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Hospital Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 19.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY15.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman

How much does Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman give?
Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman reported 15 grants totaling $34,372 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Philanthropy (36%), International (8%).
Who are Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Birthright Israel Foundation ($19k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($5k), Washington University ($5k).
Does Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman 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 Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman based?
Finerman Foundation Inc % Ralph Finerman is based in NY.

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 34 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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