New York · Private foundation
Finistere Charitable 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Finistere Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $1.1M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $665k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rockefeller University | $3,150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| New York Genome Center Inc | $1,250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cambridge in America | $1,230,776 | 5 | 1% |
| The Association of Marshall Scholars Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Every Org | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Americans for Oxford Inc | $65,183 | 1 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Media Matters for America | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($740k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Finistere Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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About Finistere Charitable Foundation
- How much does Finistere Charitable Foundation give?
- Finistere Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,772,398 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Finistere Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (68%), Health (17%), Civil Rights (9%).
- Who are Finistere Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Rockefeller University ($3.1M), New York Genome Center Inc ($1.3M), Cambridge in America ($1.2M).
- Does Finistere Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Finistere Charitable 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.
- Where is Finistere Charitable Foundation based?
- Finistere Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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