· Private foundation
Howard and Amy Finkelstein Foundation 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of Howard and Amy Finkelstein Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Howard and Amy Finkelstein Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $217k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $50,000 |
| ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION | $36,500 |
| SHATTERPROOF | $27,750 |
| TEMPLE SHOLOM | $20,000 |
| FDN FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE JUDEA | $5,000 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE | $5,000 |
| JAFCO | $5,000 |
| FREE ARTS NYC | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM | $5,000 |
| GEMS | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SASHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +243%
- UOUniversity of Michigan6× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +202%
- FFFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF Done grant, 2017 · $50k
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +24%- KIKIDS IN CRISIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Yorkers for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS IN FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Carrington Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Dana's Angels Research Trust ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION FOR NUTRITION USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC ↗
- Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Malkin Fund Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · The Velaj Foundation · Rich Foundation Inc · The Resource Foundation Inc · Simon and Eve Colin Foundation · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · The Leandro P Rizzuto Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Howard and Amy Finkelstein Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Jewish Family Services of Greenwich — 41% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hands in for Youth Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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