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Finley Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 30
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Finley Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$225k12%
FY202328$220k25%
FY202222$210k18%
FY202124$211k13%
FY202030$219k23%
FY201929$226k31%
FY201829$211k14%
FY201730$231kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$947kYouth Development$788kCommunity Improvement$13kReligion$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
IA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
KS
AR
TN
OK
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
About Our Kids Inc$788,000827%
Evangel University$14,00080%
Southwest Baptist University$13,00040%
Ozark Christian College$13,0006n/a
College of the Ozarks$10,50080%
Kansas State University$9,0006n/a
Cottey College$7,00040%
Lamar United Methodist Church$5,0001n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University$4,00040%
Southern New Hampshire University$4,00030%
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All grantees of Finley Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
About Our Kids Inc$788,000827%
Evangel University$14,00080%
Southwest Baptist University$13,00040%
Ozark Christian College$13,0006n/a
College of the Ozarks$10,50080%
Kansas State University$9,0006n/a
Cottey College$7,00040%
Lamar United Methodist Church$5,0001n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University$4,00040%
Southern New Hampshire University$4,00030%
Oral Roberts University$4,00040%
Drury University$3,00030%
Stephens College$3,00030%
Southern Illinois University Alumni Association$3,0003n/a
Midway University Inc Fka Midway College$2,00020%
Cox College$2,0002n/a
William Jewell College$2,00020%
Northwest Arkansas Community College$2,0002n/a
Creighton University$2,00020%
John Brown University$1,50020%
Johnson & Wales University$1,00010%
Arkansas State University$1,0001n/a
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College Development Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Pomona College$1,00010%
Belmont University$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($855k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Finley Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAbout Our Kids Inc: $788,000 over 8y, 27% of budgetEvangel University: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Baptist University: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of the Ozarks: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCottey College: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOral Roberts University: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDrury University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephens College: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMidway University Inc Fka Midway College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Brown University: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohnson & Wales University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern Oklahoma A&M College Development Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPomona College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Finley Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Finley Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Finley Charitable Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $224,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Finley Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Youth Development (45%), Community Improvement (1%).
Who are Finley Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: About Our Kids Inc ($788k), Evangel University ($14k), Southwest Baptist University ($13k).
Does Finley Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Finley Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Finley Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc, T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust, Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc.
Where is Finley Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Finley Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MO.

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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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