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The Feinross Family 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.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Religion$288kEducation$262kPhilanthropy$137kHealth$22kInternational$17kCivil Rights$16kArts & Culture$11kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY$35,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$15,000
AJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY$15,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$5,000
AJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY$5,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$5,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$2,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$2,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$2,000
BYRAM HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,500
BOCA JEWISH INT'L FILM FESTIVAL$1,500
THE FORWARD$1,000
US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $1k → 9%SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES: $500 → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES: $500 → 17%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$723k · 24 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
24

Total granted

$723k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+41%

Still filing today

75%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $133k · revenue +22%
  • Cornell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +59%
  • SA
    STUDENT ASSISTANCE SERVICES CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • UF
    UJA FEDERATION ON NY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +116%
  • CS
    CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Student Assistance Services Corporation. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr20%9%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr11%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr20%7%20–35yr13%50%35–55yr11%40%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
12%
8,482/67,972

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY — $260,000 · OtherAJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACYUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $129,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS+19 more — $42,300 · Other+19 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $133,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL…+1 more — $4,000 · PhilanthropyCornell University — $98,200 · EducationCornell UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $12,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNI…BYRAM HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · EducationBYRAM HILLS EDUCATI…BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — $5,500 · EducationSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC — $5,000 · Education+3 more — $1,750 · EducationSTUDENT ASSISTANCE SERVICES CORPORATION — $16,000 · HealthWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $5,000 · HealthPROJECT RENEWAL INC — $3,110 · HealthNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · HealthTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $14,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $2,500 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 · Civil RightsThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $3,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $2,000 · Arts & CultureBOCA INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureThe Forward Association Inc — $1,000 · Arts & CultureLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM — $700 · Arts & CultureMASTERVOICES INC — $500 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $500 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $250 · Arts & Culture
Other$431,400Philanthropy$137,000Education$130,450Health$26,610International$17,000Civil Rights$15,500Arts & Culture$10,450

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $133,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $98,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ASSISTANCE SERVICES CORPORATION — $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBYRAM HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — $5,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC — $5,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTSR Adventures Inc — $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL INC — $3,110 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJERICHO PROJECT — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Report Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADAMS STREET FOUNDATION INC — $250 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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY16.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The Feinross Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 50 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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