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The Fink Family Foundation at a glance

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The Fink Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$590k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$10MHealth$2.2MArts & Culture$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$300kEducation$255kInternational$210kEnvironment$110kAnimals$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Museum of Modern Art$225,000
Council on Foreign Relations$100,000
The Spence School$75,000
St Bernard's School$50,000
Greenwich Country Day School$50,000
Aspen Center for Environmental Study$50,000
North Salem Open Land Foundation$25,000
Eagle Hill Foundation$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%13 Hands Equine Rescue: $53k → 9%North Salem Volunteer Ambulance: $300k → 9%NYU Langone Hospitals: $625k → 17%Brooklyn Heights Montessori School: $5k → 20%Greenwich Country Day School: $25k → 9%Aspen Center for Environmental Study: $50k → 6%Charities Aid Foundation: $10k → 9%Eagle Hill Foundation: $15k → 16%North Salem Open Land Foundation: $35k → 9%NYU Langone Hospitals: $625k → 17%Eagle Hill Foundation: $10k → 16%North Salem Open Land Foundation: $25k → 9%NYU Langone Hospitals: $625k → 17%NYU Langone Hospitals: $100k → 17%THE SHED: $333k → 17%Museum of Modern Art: $225k → 17%Museum of Modern Art: $225k → 17%Museum of Modern Art: $175k → 17%Council on Foreign Relations: $100k → 17%Museum of Modern Art: $175k → 17%Council on Foreign Relations: $100k → 17%Museum of Modern Art: $150k → 17%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $250k → 17%The Spence School: $75k → 17%St Bernard's School: $50k → 17%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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 6 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$3.3M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+29%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +43%
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    5× · 2020–2024 · $950k · revenue +38%
  • GC
    GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M
  • SN
    SHED NYC INC
    one grant, 2019 · $333k · revenue -68%
  • NS
    North Salem Volunteer Ambulance
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
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
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
The Storm King School

The storm king school, a global community, prepares students by inspiring them toward academic success and confidence in an inclusive and diverse learning environment that embraces character, balance, and trust.

Education
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
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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5
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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9
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
10
Trustees of Deerfield Academy

Deerfield academy is an independent secondary school committed to high standards of scholarship, citizenship, and personal responsibility. through a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, extensive co-curricular program, and supportive…

Education
11
German International School New York

To provide pre-kindergarten through grade 12 college preparatory education, growing students into socially and environmentally aware global citizens in a multi-lingual, cross-cultural setting.

Arts & Culture
12
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Heights Montessori School; the most unlike its peers is 13 Hands Equine Rescue 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $10,048,531 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $5,010,934 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNorth Salem Volunteer Ambulance: $300,000 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $250,000 · Other+4 more: $92,800 · OtherNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $1,975,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE…Museum of Modern Art: $950,000 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INC: $333,333 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $125,000 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $200,000 · InternationalNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $50,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$10,048,531Other$5,653,734Health$1,975,000Arts & Culture$1,283,333Education$250,000International$200,000Environment$110,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $10,048,531 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $1,975,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $950,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $333,333 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budget13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $52,800 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN HEIGHTS MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Fink Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fink Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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