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Finley Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$216k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$916kHousing & Shelter$490kYouth Development$26kEducation$17kHealth$13kInternational$10kEnvironment$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $201k
$75,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITERARY ARTS$126,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA$75,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$15,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA: $75k → 11%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN DIEGUITO: $3k → 11%SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $1k → 17%OLD MAIN SOCIETY OF CARROL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 5%UWM FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL: $3k → 8%PORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $23k → 12%WATER 1ST INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $4k → 13%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA: $75k → 11%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%OLD MAIN SOCIETY OF CARROL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 5%UWM FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%MAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%PORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $8k → 12%BATES COLLEGE: $3k → 13%PORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $5k → 12%OPEN SCHOOL INC: $3k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $75k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $75k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $39k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $38k → 12%THE REBUILDING CENTER: $5k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $13k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $127k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $126k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $118k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $114k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $112k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $110k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $100k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $20k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $15k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $15k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $10k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $10k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $5k → 12%THE BRIAN GRANT FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%SUSAN G KOMEN OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON: $3k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN PORTLAND: $8k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $6k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $3k → 12%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$1.4M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+14%

Still filing today

80%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $614k · revenue +3%
  • LITERARY ARTS INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $268k · revenue +64%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -56%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +43%
  • OU
    OUR UNITED VILLAGES
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -28%
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
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
2
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
3
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

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4
The Winsor School

Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.

Education
5
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
6
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
9
University of Portland

The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…

Education
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open School Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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

18 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. 18 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $339,550 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYLITERARY ARTS INC: $267,850 · OtherLITERARY ARTS INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA: $150,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA+3 more: $5,500 · OtherPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $613,500 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUMPORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $35,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CENTER STAGEFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentMAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · EducationCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationOPEN SCHOOL INC: $2,500 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · HealthTHE BRIAN GRANT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthOUR UNITED VILLAGES: $5,000 · EnvironmentMercy Corps: $5,000 · InternationalWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$762,900Arts & Culture$648,500Youth Development$23,000Education$16,500Health$10,000Environment$5,000International$5,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $613,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLITERARY ARTS INC: $267,850 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR UNITED VILLAGES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Corps: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIAN GRANT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

The Oregon Community …Hillman Family Founda…Rose E Tucker Charita…Maybelle Clark Macdon…Juan Young TrustThe Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Kohnstamm Family Foun…Wheeler FoundationThe Jackson Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Kohnstamm Family Foundation · Wheeler Foundation · The Jackson 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 Finley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finley 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Literary Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Open School Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Center Stage: 1% of income from government
  • Catlin Gabel School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Finley Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Finley Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 22 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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