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Leo R Fink Foundation at a glance

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Leo R Fink Foundation

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.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$96kEducation$12kArts & Culture$10kHealth$6kPhilanthropy$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHuman Services$1kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $27,825, the rows itemized in this filing. The $29,325 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yeshiva University$11,800
Young Israel of Jamaica Estates$8,560
Jewish Community Relations Council of NY$3,600
Congregation Bais Yitzchok D'Turka$1,000
A Time USA$500
Rofei Cholim Cancer Society$500
Afikim Foundation$500
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations$500
Chaveirim$360
Young Israel of Forest Hills$225
Queens Jewish Center$180
Jerusalem Center for Research$100
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BEIS HAKNESSES OF NORTH WOODMERE: $1k → 6%QUEENS HATZOLO AID INC: $1k → 13%YESHIVA BAIS BINYOMIN: $4k → 14%70 FACES MEDIA: $4k → 17%JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $500 → 6%YOUNG ISRAEL OF FOREST HILLS: $175 → 13%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL: $250 → 17%YOUNG ISRAEL OF FOREST HILLS: $175 → 13%JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY: $5k → 17%SCHEDULE ATTACHED: $62k → 13%RABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $125 → 17%YOUNG ISRAEL OF JAMAICA ESTATES: $17k → 13%UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONG OF AM: $15k → 17%YOUNG ISRAEL OF JAMAICA ESTATES: $4k → 13%UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONG OF AM: $1k → 17%CONG BAIS YITZCHOK DTURKA: $500 → 13%CONG BAIS YITZCHOK DTURKA: $500 → 13%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106k · 12 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$106k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+29%

Still filing today

25%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationOther
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

  • YI
    YOUNG ISRAEL OF JAMAICA ESTATES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $51k
  • UO
    UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONG OF AM
    2× · 2020–2021 · $16k
  • UO
    UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k

Funded once

  • YB
    YESHIVA BAIS BINYOMIN
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • AF
    American Friends of Kehilat Novei Hashemesh
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • BH
    Bais Haknesses of North Woodmere
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
University of Judaism Foundation
—
3
Sherit Isroel
—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
6
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
7
Torah Ore Seminary

To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.

Education
8
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
9
Yakar Foundation Inc
—
10
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
11
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva University. 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

11 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. 11 of the 32 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG ISRAEL OF JAMAICA ESTATES: $50,572 · OtherYOUNG ISRAEL OF JAMAICA ESTATESUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONG OF AM: $16,060 · OtherUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONG OF AMUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA: $14,535 · OtherUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICARofei Cholim Cancer Society: $5,500 · OtherYESHIVA BAIS BINYOMIN: $4,000 · Other+18 more: $19,855 · Other+18 moreYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $11,800 · EducationYESHIVA U…70 FACES MEDIA INC: $8,600 · Arts & CultureTHE AFIKIM FOUNDATION: $1,500 · ReligionJEWISH BOOK TRUST INC: $500 · ReligionRABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $125 · ReligionQUEENS JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $800 · Human ServicesACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $500 · Human ServicesONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $1,000 · InternationalNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250 · Health
Other$110,522Education$11,800Arts & Culture$8,600Religion$2,125Human Services$1,300International$1,000Health$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $11,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC: $8,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQUEENS HATZOLO AID INC: $2,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFIKIM FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BOOK TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $125 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 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS HATZOLO AID INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AFIKIM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH BOOK TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY15.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Leo R Fink Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leo R Fink Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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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    How do I get to Leo R Fink Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Leo R Fink 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $62k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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