· Private foundation
Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $468k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH SOUTH FLORIDA | $575,000 |
| CHABAD RUSSIAN CENTER OF S FL | $500,000 |
| JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF FORT LAUDERDALE | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $89,500 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SOUTHSIDE | $78,457 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UM - INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY OF THE AMERICAS | $25,000 |
| BROTHERS FOR LIFE (HOPE FOR HEROISM) | $25,000 |
| JEWISH CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,951 |
| BAL HARBOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT | $22,538 |
| INCUBATE DEBATE | $15,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE | $10,000 |
| FERRARO FAMILY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $426k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUniversity of Miami8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +96%
- MSMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $340k · revenue +44%
- PCProject Cold Case Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $205k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MSMT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $320k
- BFBrothers for Lifeone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -1%
- CLChabad Lubavitch of Southone grant, 2021 · $132k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The feinstein institute for medical research ("the institute") is the research branch of northwell health ("northwell"). through its affiliation with northwell, the institute's mission is to bridge the gap between biomedical research and…
To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
The mission of the Jupiter Medical Center Foundation, Inc. is to secure the financial resources required to sustain clinical excellence and quality of care at Jupiter Medical Center, Inc. & its affiliates.
Friends of united hatzalah, inc .(fouh) raises and provides funding to not-for-profit organizations that provide medical and trauma-related first responder services in israel and around the world. fouh focuses the majority of its support…
To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
The organization's mission is to solicit and invest contributions for the benefit of and support of the activities of miami jewish health systems, inc. and related affiliates.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
To support the greater miami jewish federation and other irc code section 501(c)(3) organizations. philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking programs.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ferraro Family Foundation Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds Project Cold Case Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds POLICE OFFICER ASSISTANCE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Jewish Culture High School Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds HIS HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way Miami Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- His House Inc — 75% of income from government
- First Coast Crime Stoppers Inc — 37% of income from government
- Project Cold Case Inc — 33% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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