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Jacob J Fink Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2020
11
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Human Services$1.4MHealth$517kArts & Culture$195kInternational$130kSocial Science$126kEducation$77kCommunity Improvement$70kPhilanthropy$22kOther$0
02FY2020 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $445k
  • $250k+3 grants · $850k
$95,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIETY- THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IL$300,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$300,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO$250,000
THE ARK$200,000
CJE SENIOR LIFE$100,000
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$95,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$50,000
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND$41,000
SPERTUS INSTITUTE$38,000
BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH$35,000
JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $720k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY NETWORK: $15k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO: $250k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO: $70k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO: $30k → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $100k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $100k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $50k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 11 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$2.3M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-2%

Still filing today

45%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $424k · revenue +12%
  • JC
    Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
    4× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +20%
  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $280k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • GF
    GPF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue -26% · 29% of their budget
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUNDJEWISH FEDERATION AND EZRA
    one grant, 2017 · $22k
  • AE
    AMERICA-ISRAEL ECONOMIC FORUM
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy
2
Jewish Vocational Service & Employment Center

Since 1884, Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) Chicago has been committed to improving life through employment and productivity, recognizing that personal development is a lifetime endeavor. JVS Chicago serves more than 2,300 employees,…

3
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
4
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
5
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
6
Chicago Chesed Fund

To raise and distribute funds, goods, food, and assistance to the poverty-stricken in the jewish community.

Human Services
7
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
8
Leonard and Diane Sherman Family Foundation

The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational and/or religious purpose of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, and the foundation as authorized in…

Philanthropy
9
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center

To enrich lives, build community, and inspire jewish journeys.

10
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
11
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc

The jewish federation of greater atlanta cares for, connects and strengthens our jewish community throughout greater atlanta, israel and the world.

Philanthropy
12
Kehillah Jewish Education Fund

Make an authentic jewish education, coupled with an excellent secular education, available and affordable to all jewish families in the chicagoland community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Child and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $423,565 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INCVARIETY- THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IL — $410,250 · OtherVARIETY- THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF ILTHE ARK — $278,000 · OtherTHE ARKILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM — $195,000 · OtherILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUMSPERTUS INSTITUTE — $88,000 · OtherSPERTUS INSTITUTE+4 more — $131,187 · Other+4 moreJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $400,000 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chi…COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $280,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLYJewish Child and Family Services — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $110,000 · InternationalAMERICA-ISRAEL ECONOMIC FORUM — $20,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $10,000 · InternationalGPF FOUNDATION — $52,500 · EducationCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES — $46,636 · EducationBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP — $70,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,526,002Human Services$720,000International$140,000Education$99,136Youth Development$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $423,565 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $400,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $280,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP — $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGPF FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 1y, 29% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES — $46,636 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $41,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Jacob J Fink Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Jacob J Fink Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jacob J Fink Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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