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Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$146k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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100% of Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
1
’18
0
’21

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

Median grant, FY2021
$145,831
Largest grant, FY2021
$145,831
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20181$5k0%
FY20171$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$146kHealth$55k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dana-Farber Inc$55,00020%

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About Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc

How much does Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc give?
Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $145,831 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Health (27%).
Who are Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Dana-Farber Inc ($55k).
Does Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc 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.
Where is Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc based?
Steven M and Barbara Garfinkle Foundation Inc is based in RI.

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 2 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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