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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.
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k34 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $250k+1 grant · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PROJECT BREAD | $1,000 |
| HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $1,000 |
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.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HCHEBREW COLLEGE2× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +13%
PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +180%- TCTHE CENTER FOR ARTS IN NATICK INC2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +22%
- HMHOLOCAUST MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
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…
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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Education opportunity for the jewish community
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds METROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPF ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ARTS IN NATICK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVERBEND CENTER FOR MONTESSORI EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERSTANDING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS ACTION COMMITTEE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
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.
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
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 Steven & Renee Finn Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.