· Private foundation
Finley Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| About Our Kids Inc | $100,000 |
| Pittsburg State University | $21,500 |
| Missouri State University | $20,500 |
| Missouri Southern State University | $19,500 |
| University of Missouri-Columbia | $13,000 |
| Ozark Technical Community College | $11,000 |
| Southwest Baptist University | $6,000 |
| Crowder College | $5,000 |
| Missouri University Science Technol | $5,000 |
| University of Arkansas | $5,000 |
| Ozark Christian College | $2,000 |
| Fort Scott Community College | $2,000 |
| Cottey College | $2,000 |
| Metropolitan State University of De | $1,000 |
| United States Military Academy | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $788k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AOABOUT OUR KIDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $788k · revenue +143% · 27% of their budget
- EUEvangel University8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +51%
- SBSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- LULAMAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- NONortheast Oklahoma A M Collegeone grant, 2023 · $1k
- CSColumbia Southern Universityone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
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Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
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Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ABOUT OUR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Evangel University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds COTTEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗
- Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Finley Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finley Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
- Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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