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Maria & Joel Finkle Charitable Trus at a glance

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Maria & Joel Finkle Charitable Trus

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$472k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.4MEducation$730kPhilanthropy$161kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $235k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIFERES ELIYAHU$235,000
OJC FUND$30,000
AMAL HATORAH$22,500
BELZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISAEL$20,000
PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE$18,000
Individual grant recipient$17,000
Individual grant recipient$14,850
YESHIVA DERECH HACHAIM$11,000
CONG CHAIM VCHESED$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CONGREGATION BAIS EPHRAIM$10,000
CONG BAIS AHRON$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
RUBY RED$10,000
CONGREGATION WHITE HOUSE$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RUBY RED: $10k → 11%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 28 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
18

Total granted

$2.3M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-15%

Still filing today

21%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TE
    TIFERES ELIYOHU
    4× · 2021–2024 · $658k · revenue +65%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $502k · revenue +39%
  • YC
    YESHIVA CHAYEI OLAM
    2× · 2020–2021 · $22k · revenue +200%

Funded once

  • BH
    BAIS HATALMUD OF JERUSALEM
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • YT
    Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -15%
  • KY
    KOL YEHUDA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -75%
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
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Keren Hatorah of Passaic- Clifton

To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.

Education
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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6
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
7
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
8
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
9
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
10
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah-Yeshivat Mizrachi Lbanim

A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.

Education
11
Yeshivas Abirey Lev

Provide education for college age students

Religion
12
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel; the most unlike its peers is Tiferes Eliyohu. 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

17 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. 17 of the 54 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $225,870 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBELZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISAEL: $130,000 · OtherBELZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISAELPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $98,400 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INCIndividual grant recipient: $88,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKOLLEL BNEI YESHIVAS: $71,500 · OtherKOLLEL BNEI YESHIVASIndividual grant recipient: $40,500 · OtherYESHIVA SHOLOM SHACHNA: $40,000 · Other+31 more: $441,000 · Other+31 moreTIFERES ELIYOHU: $658,000 · ReligionTIFERES ELIYOHUAMAL HATORAH INC: $37,500 · Religion+2 more: $15,000 · ReligionYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $502,300 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITYTHE OJC FUND: $130,000 · EducationTHE OJC FUND+6 more: $77,000 · Education+6 moreBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $21,100 · PhilanthropyKOL YEHUDA INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKEREN DOVID ELIEZER INC: $6,300 · PhilanthropyRUBY RED: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$1,136,070Religion$710,500Education$709,300Philanthropy$37,400Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIFERES ELIYOHU: $658,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $502,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OJC FUND: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMAL HATORAH INC: $37,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetYESHIVA CHAYEI OLAM: $22,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $21,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHEDER TORAS ZEV: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH CHAIM: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKOL YEHUDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRUBY RED: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKEREN DOVID ELIEZER INC: $6,300 over 1y, 86% of budgetNACHLAS BAIS YAAKOV: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA OF OCEAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV ATERES MIRIAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 TIFERES ELIYOHU ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE OJC FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMAL HATORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA CHAYEI OLAM ↗
  • Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel ↗
  • Who funds TIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEDER TORAS ZEV ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA DERECH CHAIM ↗
  • Who funds KOL YEHUDA INC ↗
  • Who funds Yeshiva Gedolah of Elkins Park ↗
  • Who funds RUBY RED ↗
  • Who funds KEREN DOVID ELIEZER 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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundRegina Goldwasser Fou…Donors Fund IncJack Adjmi Family Fou…Toras Chesed IncJewish Community Foun…Jsp Family FoundationJsw FoundationThe R & S Family Foun…Zichron Btz Tzedakah …National Society for …
The Ojc FundNY26.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Toras Chesed Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jsp Family Foundation · Jsw Foundation · The R & S Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools

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 Maria & Joel Finkle Charitable Trus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maria & Joel Finkle Charitable Trus. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Cheder Toras Zev: 17% of income from government
  • Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Chayei Olam: 12% of income from government
  • Nachlas Bais Yaakov: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Maria & Joel Finkle Charitable Trus 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 54 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.

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