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Steven & Renee Finn Foundation at a glance

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Steven & Renee Finn 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.

$326k
Granted FY2020
36
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$262k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

89% of Steven & Renee Finn Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Combined Jewish Philanthropies Of Greater Boston Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Steven & Renee Finn Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $326k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’19
19
’20
0
’23
1
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$455kPhilanthropy$107kReligion$49kArts & Culture$28kHuman Services$15kHousing & Shelter$4kHealth$3kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2020 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k34 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $262k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEWTROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$261,557
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM$19,810
JFS OF METROWEST$5,500
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$5,000
HEBREW COLLEGE$5,000
2LIFE COMMUNITES$3,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$3,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$2,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
JCDS$1,360
GATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION$1,000
PROJECT BREAD$1,000
AMIT$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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 (FY20–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JFS OF METROWEST: $6k → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%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.
$800k · 13 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$800k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+22%

Still filing today

46%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HC
    HEBREW COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +13%
  • PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +180%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR ARTS IN NATICK INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +22%
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $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
Boston Jewish Film Inc

The organization celebrates the richness of the jewish experience through film and media. throughout the year, the festival engages and inspires the community to explore the full spectrum of jewish life, values and culture.

—
2
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
3
Jewish Community Center of the North Shore Inc

The jewish community center of the north shore (jccns) is committed to being the central gathering place for jewish life, learning and culture, offering enriching experiences to strengthen jewish identity. it strives to enhance all…

Human Services
4
Jewish Arts Collaborative Inc

To explore and present the rich, diverse, and creative world of jewish arts and culture-past, present, and future-to the widest possible audience, in venues across greater boston. through a broad range of programming spanning the…

—
5
Bais Yaakov of Boston Inc

Bais yaakov of boston, the only all girls jewish high school in boston, is a college preparatory school that provides a comprehensive and challenging judaic and secular studies program. it offers orthodox jewish young women an environment…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Jewish Teen Initiative of Greater Boston Inc

The jewish teen initiative (jti) is an organization committed to building community among all jewish teens through institutional collaboration, a rich spectrum of innovative programming and participation in national opportunities. jti…

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8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
10
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Buffalo Inc

Education opportunity for the jewish community

—
11
Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy

Jack m. barrack hebrew academy is a pluralistic jewish day school for students in grades six through twelve from a broad variety of backgrounds. the school integrates a comprehensive and rigorous college preparatory curriculum with the…

—
12
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra 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

19 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. 19 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPF: $445,089 · EducationMETROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPFBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $22,380 · Education+2 more: $8,800 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $293,253 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $36,360 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHALOM+26 more: $37,500 · Other+26 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $105,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jew…+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR ARTS IN NATICK INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC: $250 · Arts & Culture2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Education$476,269Other$367,113Philanthropy$107,000Human Services$6,500Arts & Culture$4,750Housing & Shelter$3,500Civil Rights$2,500

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 budgetMETROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPF: $445,089 over 2y, 17% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $22,380 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $6,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ARTS IN NATICK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVERBEND CENTER FOR MONTESSORI EXCELLENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERSTANDING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIDS ACTION COMMITTEE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC: $250 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.

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Joseph and Rae Gann C…Rosalyn and Richard S…David J Feldman and S…Krupp Family Foundati…Ruderman Family Found…The Beker FoundationBoston Foundation IncThe US Charitable Gif…Jewish Communal FundAmerican Endowment Fo…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA27.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Rosalyn and Richard Slifka Charitable Trust · David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust · Krupp Family Foundation · Ruderman Family Foundation · The Beker Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation

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 Steven & Renee Finn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steven & Renee Finn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf: 4% of income from government
  • The Center for Arts in Natick Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Berkshire Theatre Group Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–50%
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.

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 41 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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