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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$5.8M
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.

Community Improvement$20MPhilanthropy$2.1MSocial Science$500kEducation$241kPublic Benefit$181kArts & Culture$130kHealth$40kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $266k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.8M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$94M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FINRA INVESTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$5,800,910
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$206,116
SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION INC$60,000
CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC$20,000
JUMPSTART COALITION FOR PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY$15,000
SEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,000
CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA$14,000
ASSOCIATION OF SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION ALUMNI$7,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING: $299k → 10%SIFMA FNDT FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION: $75k → 17%AMERICA ONLINE GIVING: $451k → 12%AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $18k → 13%DIRECTWOMEN: $25k → 14%FINRA INVESTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7.0M → 8%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING: $287k → 10%SIFMA FNDT FOR INVESTOR PROTECTION: $50k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING: $266k → 12%FINRA INVESTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5.9M → 8%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $206k → 10%SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION: $45k → 17%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING: $197k → 12%FINRA INVESTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5.8M → 8%SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION: $30k → 17%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING: $181k → 12%FINRA INVESTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $204k → 8%SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION: $30k → 17%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING: $169k → 12%FINRA INVESTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $188k → 8%SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION: $30k → 17%SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION INC: $60k → 17%SIFMA FNDT FOR INVESTOR PROTECTION: $50k → 17%COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $115k → 17%SEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 14%COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $15k → 17%SEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 14%SEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 14%SEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 14%JUMPSTART COALITION: $15k → 14%SEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 14%JUMPSTART COALITION: $15k → 14%SEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 14%SEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 14%FINRA INVESTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $773k → 14%FINRA INVESTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $92k → 14%FINRA INVESTOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $82k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $60k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $31k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $18k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $16k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $16k → 14%JUMPSTART COALITION: $15k → 14%JUMPSTART COALITION: $15k → 14%JUMPSTART COALITION FOR PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY: $15k → 14%JUMPSTART COALITION: $15k → 14%JUMPSTART COALITION: $15k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 11 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$21M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
75%

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
EducationSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • SF
    SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $370k · revenue +13%
  • CF
    Consumer Federation of America
    8× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +237%
  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $130k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • DW
    DIRECT WOMEN
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • CP
    CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -26%
  • HG
    HASTINGS GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
American Finance Association

The organization's mission is to improve public understanding of financial problems and promote finance scholarship. the organization is devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics.

Public Benefit
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Afsa Education Foundation

To promote awareness of personal money management skills and knowledge that will help consumers realize the benefits of responsible money management and the credit process, and by providing personal finance curricula to educate students in…

Arts & Culture
6
Institute of International Finance

To support financial industry in prudently managing risks and to foster global financial stability.

—
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
9
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
10
Cfa Institute

Cfa institute is the global, non-profit professional membership association that administers the chartered financial analyst (cfa) certificate, the certificate in investment performance measurement (cipm), and the certificate in esg…

—
11
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sifma Foundation for Investor Education (Fie) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cancer League of Colorado 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FINRA Investor Education Foundation: $19,989,512 · Community ImprovementFINRA Investor Education FoundationAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,055,837 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN O…+1 more: $17,586 · PhilanthropySIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC: $370,000 · Social ScienceCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $130,000 · Social ScienceJUMPSTART COALITION FOR PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY: $120,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationWilliam & Mary Foundation: $10,000 · EducationConsumer Federation of America: $180,687 · Public BenefitSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $130,000 · Arts & CultureDIRECT WOMEN: $25,000 · OtherAssociation of Securities Exchange Commission Alum: $22,500 · OtherOPERATION HOPE INC: $22,500 · OtherTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $12,500 · OtherHASTINGS GROUP: $10,000 · OtherCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $40,000 · OtherCHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI: $10,000 · Other
Community Improvement$19,989,512Philanthropy$2,073,423Social Science$500,000Education$215,000Public Benefit$180,687Arts & Culture$130,000Other$142,500

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 budgetFINRA Investor Education Foundation: $19,989,512 over 8y, 74% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,055,837 over 8y, 0.0% 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $17,586 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Finra Regulation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finra Regulation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

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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.

    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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