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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
34
Organizations funded FY2020
68%
First-time grantees FY2020
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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.

Median grant, FY2020
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$261,557
Organizations funded a year
13 to 34
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
6
Total assets, FY2020
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 68% of the organizations Steven & Renee Finn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202034$319k68%
FY201913$214kn/a
80% 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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Steven & Renee Finn Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf$445,089217%
Temple Beth Shalom$36,3602n/a
Barrington Stage Company Inc$22,38010%
Hebrew College$6,80020%
Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc$5,50010%
2life Communities Inc$3,50010%
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc$3,00010%
American Jewish Committee$2,50010%
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc$2,00020%
Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc$2,00020%
The Center for Arts in Natick Inc$1,50020%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$1,00010%
The Riverbend Center for Montessori Excellence Inc$1,00010%
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Inc$1,00020%
Daughters of Israel Inc$5001n/a
Understanding Our Differences Inc$50010%
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts Inc$50020%
Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach Inc$36010%
The Arthur J Epstein Hillel School Inc$3601n/a
Berkshire Theatre Group Inc$25010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1001n/a

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($324k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Steven & Renee Finn Foundation supplied at peak.

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 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 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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 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.

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About Steven & Renee Finn Foundation

How much does Steven & Renee Finn Foundation give?
Steven & Renee Finn Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $326,267 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does Steven & Renee Finn Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Philanthropy (11%), Religion (5%).
Who are Steven & Renee Finn Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf ($445k), Temple Beth Shalom ($36k), Barrington Stage Company Inc ($22k).
Does Steven & Renee Finn Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Steven & Renee Finn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Steven & Renee Finn Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation.
Where is Steven & Renee Finn Foundation based?
Steven & Renee Finn Foundation is based in MA.

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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