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Finkelstein Family Foundation at a glance

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Finkelstein Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$63kFood & Nutrition$44kArts & Culture$14kCivil Rights$6kEducation$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kCrime & Legal$1k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$241k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION$15,000
WOODMERE ART MUSEUM$2,500
FOOD FOR NEEDY$2,500
LOUIS D BRANDEIS CENTER$1,800
FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$1,000
NYC BAR JUSTICE CENTER$1,000
DANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION$500
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 7 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$92k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+15%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Food & NutritionArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CC
    CROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $60k
  • WA
    WOODMERE ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue -19%
  • TS
    The Soup Kitchen Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue -80%

Funded once

  • SK
    SOUP KITCHEN OF DELRAY
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +146%
  • Philabundance
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +0%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
4
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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7
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
8
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations

The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
12
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Food for Needy Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherCROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATIONSOUP KITCHEN OF DELRAY: $30,000 · OtherSOUP KITCHEN OF DELRAYFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Other+4 more: $4,500 · OtherThe Soup Kitchen Inc: $7,500 · Food & NutritionThe Soup Ki…FOOD FOR NEEDY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR NE…Philabundance: $1,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundan…WOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $500 · Civil RightsThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $1,800 · Crime & LegalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $500 · Health
Other$98,000Food & Nutrition$13,500Arts & Culture$10,500Education$5,000Civil Rights$4,500Crime & Legal$1,800Human Services$1,000Health$500

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 budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Soup Kitchen Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR NEEDY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $500 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Finkelstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finkelstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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