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Finra Regulation Inc

Finra regulation is dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and efficient regulation of the securities industry.

$6.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,800,910
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$94M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Finra Regulation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
HealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
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 arriving7$5.9M0%
FY20236$7.1M17%
FY20226$6.0M17%
FY20216$378k17%
FY20207$272k14%
FY20197$213k14%
FY20188$898k0%
FY201710$335kn/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.

Community Improvement$20MPhilanthropy$2.1MSocial Science$500kEducation$241kPublic Benefit$181kArts & Culture$130kHealth$40kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
DC
FL

Top grantees

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

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Where it is load-bearing

Finra Regulation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFINRA Investor Education Foundation: $19,989,512 over 8y, 74% of budgetSifma Foundation for Investor Education (Fie) Inc: $370,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetConsumer Federation of America: $180,687 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetCouncil for Economic Education: $130,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSecurities and Exchange Commission Historical Society: $130,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetJumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy: $120,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCancer League of Colorado Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetDirect Women: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGeorgetown University: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Securities Exchange Commission Alum: $22,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetOperation Hope Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristopher P Gardner Foundati: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation: $10,000 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 14.

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 Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to Finra Regulation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Finra Regulation Inc 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.

About Finra Regulation Inc

How much does Finra Regulation Inc give?
Finra Regulation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $6,162,196 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Finra Regulation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (86%), Philanthropy (9%), Social Science (2%).
Who are Finra Regulation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: FINRA Investor Education Foundation ($20M), Sifma Foundation for Investor Education (Fie) Inc ($370k), Consumer Federation of America ($181k).
Does Finra Regulation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Finra Regulation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Finra Regulation Inc based?
Finra Regulation Inc is based in MD.

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 19 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 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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