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Finucaine Fund 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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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 FY20202025.

Education$80kHuman Services$25kPublic Benefit$9kEnvironment$3kMembership Benefit$3kYouth Development$1kHealth$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$965k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A Safe Place Inc$25,000
Ellicottville Memorial Library$3,500
Cattaraugus Community Foundation$2,000
St Lawrence University$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%A Safe Place Inc: $25k → 6%Mercy Flight Inc: $250 → 13%HUGS Foundation: $1k → 14%Friends of the Upper Delaware River: $3k → 15%Cattaraugus Community Foundation: $5k → 16%St Lawrence University: $25k → 18%Mercy Flight Inc: $250 → 13%Brighton Volunteer Ambulance Inc: $100 → 14%Cattaraugus Community Foundation: $2k → 16%St Lawrence University: $10k → 18%Canisius High School: $5k → 13%Cattaraugus Community Foundation: $2k → 16%St Lawrence University: $10k → 18%Greater Olean Community Foundation: $1k → 16%St Lawrence University: $10k → 18%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $4k → 16%St Lawrence University: $10k → 18%Rotary Club of Ellicottville: $3k → 16%St Lawrence University: $1k → 18%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Rotary Club of Ellicottville: $1k → 16%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Ellicottville Memorial Library: $1k → 16%Rotary Club of Ellicottville: $300 → 16%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$88k · 5 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$88k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthOther

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

  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +5%
  • EM
    ELLICOTTVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +47%
  • MF
    MERCY FLIGHT INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $500 · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CH
    CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +115%
  • HF
    HUGS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%

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
Irondequoit Ambulance Inc

Provides 24-hour daily emergency services to the Town of Irondequoit. Also provides advanced life support to the Sea Breeze Fire District, as well as mutual aid service to areas surrounding Irondequoit in Monroe County.

Health
2
Wolcott Volunteer Ambulance Assoc Inc

Volunteer ambulance association that provides emergency medical services and emergency response and transportation for sick and injured in wolcott, ct

Health
3
Huron Valley Ambulance

The mission of huron valley ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.

Health
4
Oxford Ambulance Association Inc

To provide ambulance service between the town and medical facilities convenient to the town of oxford.

5
Bellefonte Emergency Medical Services

The mission of the corporation is to provide a quality pre-hospital emergency medical service ("ems") to the residents and guests in the corporation's service area. the corporation will, to the best of its ability, respond to emergency and…

Health
6
Susquehanna Township Ems Inc

Emergency treatment of accident victims and provision of medical care by licensed qualified personnel while enroute to the hospital. Transports of individuals to hospitals or other medical facilities.

Health
7
Ausable Forks Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc

Volunteer ambulance squad providing emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc

Ambulance service and other first-aid services to the residents of the town of gates and spencerport and neighboring towns as needed.

Health
9
Sand Lake Ambulance Inc

Provide ambulance service to any person in need within the town of sand lake and surrounding environs

10
Pittsford Volunteer Ambulance Inc

Pittsford Volunteer Ambulance exists to provide Pittsford and neighboring communities with patient-centered care and consultation, education, prevention programs, and partnerships to maintain quality of health and life.

Health
11
Fremont Wolf River Ems Ltd

To provide ambulance and medical services to the public.

12
Union Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc

Assist in emergency responses and medical services in the town of webster and ontario, county of monroe, and state of new york.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Flight Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ellicottville Memorial Library. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $66,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYELLICOTTVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $8,500 · EducationELLICOTTVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARYA SAFE PLACE INC — $25,000 · OtherA SAFE PLACE INCCattaraugus Community Foundation — $9,000 · OtherCattaraugus Community FoundationCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL — $5,000 · OtherCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOLRotary Club of Ellicottville — $3,800 · OtherRotary Club of Ellicottville+1 more — $500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentGREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyHUGS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · InternationalBrighton Volunteer Ambulance — $100 · Health
Education$74,500Other$43,300Environment$2,500Philanthropy$1,000International$1,000Health$100

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 budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $66,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE PLACE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELLICOTTVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $8,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUGS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrighton Volunteer Ambulance — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Finucaine Fund Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 45%
  • A Safe Place Inc45% of 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 · 0–50%
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 Finucaine Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Finucaine Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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