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Jack & Phyllis Finkelstein Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Jack & Phyllis Finkelstein Family 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.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$133kReligion$133kPhilanthropy$102kInternational$47kCrime & Legal$40kScience & Tech$34kEducation$22kHuman Services$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR HOPE$20,000
ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION$15,000
LEVINDALE HEBREW GERIATRIC CENTER$10,000
BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION$6,000
BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$5,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$4,000
HADASSAH$2,000
HINENU$1,500
MEALS ON WHEELS CENTRAL MARYLAND$1,500
THE FAMILY TREE$1,500
HELPING UP MISSION$1,500
JEWISH FED OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$1,500
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$1,500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $20k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIV: $5k → 17%NORTHWEST HOSPITAL: $8k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $40k → 19%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $5k → 6%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $4k → 17%BETH TFILOH UNIFIED CAMPAIGN: $37k → 11%NORTHWEST HOSPITAL (LIFEBRIDGE: $30k → 19%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $4k → 6%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $14k → 11%CENTER FOR HOPE: $20k → 19%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $4k → 6%HADASSAH: $2k → 17%BETH TFILOH UNIFIED CAMPAIGN: $12k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH - CENTER FOR HOPE: $20k → 19%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $4k → 6%THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN: $5k → 17%BETH TFILOH UNIFIED CAMPAIGN: $11k → 11%CENTER FOR HOPE: $20k → 19%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $3k → 6%BETH TFILOH UNIFIED CAMPAIGN: $10k → 11%ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION: $15k → 19%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $3k → 6%BETH TFILOH UNIFIED CAMPAIGN: $10k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $10k → 19%BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION: $6k → 11%LEVINDALE HEBREW GERIATRIC CENTER: $10k → 19%BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION: $6k → 11%NORTHWEST HOSPITAL (LIFEBRIDGE: $10k → 19%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $4k → 11%NORTHWEST HOSPITAL (LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH): $10k → 19%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $4k → 11%LEVINDALE HEBREW GERIATRIC CTR: $8k → 19%SINAI HOSPITAL: $8k → 19%CHEVREI TZEDEK CONGREGATION: $6k → 11%CHEVREI TZEDEK CONGREGATION: $6k → 11%CHEVREI TZEDEK CONGREGATION: $5k → 11%CHEVREI TZEDEK CONGREGATION: $5k → 11%CHEVREI TZEDEK CONGREGATION: $5k → 11%CHEVREI TZEDEK CONGREGATION: $4k → 11%CHEVREI TZEDEK CONGREGATION: $3k → 11%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY: $13k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY: $12k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $12k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $12k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $12k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY: $12k → 19%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.
$370k · 18 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
11

Total granted

$370k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+5%

Still filing today

39%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR HOPE INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +38%
  • UO
    University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY TREE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • LH
    LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH - CENTER FOR HOPE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • LH
    LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +88%
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
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Franklin Square Hospital Center Inc

See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.

Health
4
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

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8
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
9
Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
10
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
11
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
12
The Jerusalem Connection
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank 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, 2017–2025.

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. 18 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETH TFILOH UNIFIED CAMPAIGN: $80,000 · OtherBETH TFILOH UNIFIED CAMPAIGNJEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $40,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORENORTHWEST HOSPITAL (LIFEBRIDGE: $40,000 · OtherNORTHWEST HOSPITAL (LIFEBRIDGETHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY: $37,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITYIndividual grant recipient: $32,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $23,500 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETYLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH - CENTER FOR HOPE: $20,000 · OtherLEVINDALE HEBREW GERIATRIC CENTER: $18,333 · OtherASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION: $15,000 · Other+16 more: $80,758 · Other+16 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $42,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATI…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN CO…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SO…THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $36,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $8,500 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $10,000 · HealthSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $8,333 · HealthST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,000 · HealthCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $4,500 · EducationJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,500 · ReligionMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$387,491International$57,000Philanthropy$44,500Crime & Legal$40,000Health$29,333Education$4,500Religion$1,500Food & Nutrition$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $6,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $6,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $1,500 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER 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.

T Rowe Price Program …The Aaron & Lillie St…David & Barbara B Hir…The Jacob and Hilda B…Crane Family Foundati…The Abell Foundation …The Harry and Jeanett…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002 · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Jack & Phyllis Finkelstein Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack & Phyllis Finkelstein Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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Find your warmest path to Jack & Phyllis Finkelstein Family Foundation 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 39 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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