· Private foundation
Jerome A Fink Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $33,333 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC | $30,000 |
| CHOC CHILDREN'S | $20,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ORANGE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| VISTAS FOR CHILDREN INC | $5,000 |
| THE TEEN PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| DELTA UPSILON OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC | $1,966 |
| FOND BLANC FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ORANGE COUNTY LOBOS FUTBOL CLUB & ACADAMY | $1,000 |
| THE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE | $500 |
| NEWPORT HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS LACROSSE BOOSTER C | $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 (FY20–22, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
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 FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $183k · revenue +29%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $67k · revenue +3%
- CFCHOC FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- APALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +78%
- WRWISCONSIN REAL ESTATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -8%
- MDMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
We provide an unparalleled arts and acdademic education in a creative, challenging and nurturing environment to a diverse student body passionate about the arts, preparing them to reach their highest potential.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…
Pomona community health center's mission is to be the medical home for the underserved in our community by providing high quality preventive and primary care health services.
To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Orange County Lobos Fc & Academy. 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 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 28 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Teen Project Inc ↗
- Who funds DELTA UPSILON OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN REAL ESTATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VISTAS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Project Access Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PEGASUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART FDN 37-XXX-XX-XXXX ↗
- Who funds PRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOND BLANC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Orange County Lobos FC & Academy ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE ↗
- Who funds Newport Harbor High School Boys Lacrosse Booster Club ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Affordable Housing Access Inc · Argyros Family Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 Jerome A Fink 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.
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% 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.