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Finkel Family Foundation at a glance

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Finkel Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$356k
Granted FY2019
23
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Human Services$212kEducation$111kHousing & Shelter$25kReligion$6kPhilanthropy$6kEnvironment$6kHealth$5kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2019 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k18 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $307k
$1,300
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAMARACK CAMPS$101,000
HILLEL DAY SCHOOL$100,500
YAD EZRA ENDOWMENT FUND$55,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
KADIMA$25,000
SYRACUSE UNIV$5,000
JVS HUMAN SERVICES$4,096
TROUT UNLIMITED$3,000
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER$2,500
HEBREW FREE LOAN$2,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT$1,500
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL$1,300
MSU HILLEL FOUNDATION$1,200
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
JARC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JARC: $1k → 8%JARC: $1k → 8%JARC: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$347k · 15 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -66% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$347k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-66%

Still filing today

60%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
AnimalsEducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HD
    HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT
    2× · 2018–2019 · $101k · revenue +39%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • M
    MITU
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • JH
    JEWISH HOSPICE CHAPLAINCY
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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8
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
9
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
10
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest

The purpose of the society is to promote the vitality and continuity of jewish culture in the upper midwest through preservation, interpretation and education.

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11
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Dynami Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAMARACK CAMPS: $103,233 · OtherTAMARACK CAMPSYAD EZRA ENDOWMENT FUND: $56,000 · OtherYAD EZRA ENDOWMENT FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $51,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKADIMA: $25,000 · OtherKADIMA+17 more: $12,450 · OtherHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $101,000 · EducationHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETRO…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY+1 more: $60 · EducationTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $5,500 · AnimalsMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · AnimalsDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $500 · Animals+1 more: $35 · AnimalsJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $3,680 · PhilanthropyHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $4,596 · EmploymentJARC: $3,000 · Human ServicesHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$247,683Education$111,060Animals$7,035Philanthropy$6,180Employment$4,596Human Services$3,000Arts & Culture$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $101,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $4,596 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $3,680 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJARC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDYNAMI FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEAR-HUG FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $60 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Robt & Gail Katz Fami…Marvin and Betty Dant…David Kahan Family Fo…The Andrea and Lawren…Harold and Penny B Bl…The Ravitz FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Robt & Gail Katz Family FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robt & Gail Katz Family Foundation · Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation · David Kahan Family Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Ravitz Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Finkel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finkel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 33 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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