New York · Private foundation
Finkelstein Family Foundation
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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,375
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $358k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Finkelstein Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $32k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $16k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $89k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $21k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $25k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $52k | 68% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $50k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $112,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | $44,375 | 4 | 0% |
| Slow Medicine Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Park Avenue Synagogue Inc | $5,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Athens Square Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $1,350 | 5 | 0% |
| MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger | $1,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $1,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($182k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Finkelstein Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Finkelstein Family Foundation
- How much does Finkelstein Family Foundation give?
- Finkelstein Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $32,205 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Finkelstein Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (57%), Human Services (17%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Finkelstein Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($112k), The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ($44k), Slow Medicine Foundation Inc ($10k).
- Does Finkelstein Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Finkelstein Family 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Finkelstein Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Finkelstein Family Foundation based?
- Finkelstein Family Foundation is based in NY.
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