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Finucaine Fund Inc at a glance

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Finucaine Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$80kHuman Services$25kPublic Benefit$9kEnvironment$3kMembership Benefit$3kYouth Development$1kHealth$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$965k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A Safe Place Inc$25,000
Ellicottville Memorial Library$3,500
Cattaraugus Community Foundation$2,000
St Lawrence University$1,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%A Safe Place Inc: $25k → 6%Mercy Flight Inc: $250 → 13%HUGS Foundation: $1k → 14%Friends of the Upper Delaware River: $3k → 15%Cattaraugus Community Foundation: $5k → 16%St Lawrence University: $25k → 18%Mercy Flight Inc: $250 → 13%Brighton Volunteer Ambulance Inc: $100 → 14%Cattaraugus Community Foundation: $2k → 16%St Lawrence University: $10k → 18%Canisius High School: $5k → 13%Cattaraugus Community Foundation: $2k → 16%St Lawrence University: $10k → 18%Greater Olean Community Foundation: $1k → 16%St Lawrence University: $10k → 18%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $4k → 16%St Lawrence University: $10k → 18%Rotary Club of Ellicottville: $3k → 16%St Lawrence University: $1k → 18%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Rotary Club of Ellicottville: $1k → 16%Rotary Club of Ellicottville: $300 → 16%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$88k · 5 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$88k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthOther
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

  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +5%
  • EM
    ELLICOTTVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +47%
  • MF
    MERCY FLIGHT INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $500 · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CH
    CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +115%
  • HF
    HUGS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Irondequoit Ambulance Inc

Provides 24-hour daily emergency services to the Town of Irondequoit. Also provides advanced life support to the Sea Breeze Fire District, as well as mutual aid service to areas surrounding Irondequoit in Monroe County.

Health
2
Wolcott Volunteer Ambulance Assoc Inc

Volunteer ambulance association that provides emergency medical services and emergency response and transportation for sick and injured in wolcott, ct

Health
3
Huron Valley Ambulance

The mission of huron valley ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.

Health
4
Oxford Ambulance Association Inc

To provide ambulance service between the town and medical facilities convenient to the town of oxford.

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5
Bellefonte Emergency Medical Services

The mission of the corporation is to provide a quality pre-hospital emergency medical service ("ems") to the residents and guests in the corporation's service area. the corporation will, to the best of its ability, respond to emergency and…

Health
6
Susquehanna Township Ems Inc

Emergency treatment of accident victims and provision of medical care by licensed qualified personnel while enroute to the hospital. Transports of individuals to hospitals or other medical facilities.

Health
7
Ausable Forks Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc

Volunteer ambulance squad providing emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc

Ambulance service and other first-aid services to the residents of the town of gates and spencerport and neighboring towns as needed.

Health
9
Sand Lake Ambulance Inc

Provide ambulance service to any person in need within the town of sand lake and surrounding environs

—
10
Pittsford Volunteer Ambulance Inc

Pittsford Volunteer Ambulance exists to provide Pittsford and neighboring communities with patient-centered care and consultation, education, prevention programs, and partnerships to maintain quality of health and life.

Health
11
Fremont Wolf River Ems Ltd

To provide ambulance and medical services to the public.

—
12
Union Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc

Assist in emergency responses and medical services in the town of webster and ontario, county of monroe, and state of new york.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Flight Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ellicottville Memorial Library. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $66,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYELLICOTTVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $8,500 · EducationELLICOTTVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARYA SAFE PLACE INC: $25,000 · OtherA SAFE PLACE INCCattaraugus Community Foundation: $9,000 · OtherCattaraugus Community FoundationCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOLRotary Club of Ellicottville: $3,800 · OtherRotary Club of Ellicottville+1 more: $500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentGREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHUGS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalBrighton Volunteer Ambulance: $100 · Health
Education$74,500Other$43,300Environment$2,500Philanthropy$1,000International$1,000Health$100

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 budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $66,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE PLACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELLICOTTVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $8,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUGS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrighton Volunteer Ambulance: $100 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.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • A Safe Place Inc: 45% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Finucaine Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Finucaine Fund 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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