Pennsylvania · Private foundation
J B Finley Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,631
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations J B Finley Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $104k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $107k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $122k | 85% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $137k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $138k | 94% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $122k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $147k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $155k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities Health Care Center Inc | $31,852 | 2 | 2% |
| New Day Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 4% |
| St James Haven Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Aliquippa Impact Inc | $25,810 | 3 | 2% |
| Hello Neighbor | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Kiski School | $21,703 | 1 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Inc | $20,750 | 2 | 1% |
| Seneca Hills Bible Conference | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Westmoreland County Redevelopment Authority | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Water Street Ministries | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($256k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
J B Finley Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Eqt Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · McElhattan Foundation · Dollar Bank Foundation · Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation
How this is measured
About J B Finley Charitable Trust
- How much does J B Finley Charitable Trust give?
- J B Finley Charitable Trust reported 8 grants totaling $103,893 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does J B Finley Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Religion (13%), Education (10%).
- Who are J B Finley Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Catholic Charities Health Care Center Inc ($32k), New Day Inc ($30k), St James Haven Inc ($27k).
- Does J B Finley Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does J B Finley Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as J B Finley Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
- Where is J B Finley Charitable Trust based?
- J B Finley Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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