· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- GRGREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +96%
- NCNATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR LEADERSHIP PROGRAMSone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard and Amy Finkelstein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard and Amy Finkelstein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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