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The Finkelman Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Finkelman Family Charitable 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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$35kFood & Nutrition$29kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$16kEnvironment$11kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$6kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
1
States reached
$125k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HOSPICE CARING PROJECT$1,000
TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT$1,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD$1,000
CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
RIO DEL MAR IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION$500
SAVE OUR SHORES$250
CA GREY BEARS INC$250
FRIENDS OF SC STATE PARKS$250
WOMENCARE$200
VETERANS CHARITIES$200
FOSTER GRANDPARENT PROJECT$200
FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO$180
GIRLS INC OF CENTRAL COAST$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WOMEN CARE: $300 → 13%WOMEN CARE: $250 → 13%WOMEN CARE: $242 → 13%WOMENCARE: $200 → 13%WOMENCARE: $200 → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $4k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $3k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $3k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $3k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $3k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $3k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $2k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $2k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $2k → 13%CA GREY BEARS INC: $2k → 13%CA GREY BEARS INC: $650 → 13%CA GREY BEARS INC: $580 → 13%CA GREY BEARS INC: $500 → 13%CA GREY BEARS INC: $500 → 13%CA GREY BEARS INC: $500 → 13%CA GREY BEARS INC: $250 → 13%CA GREY BEARS INC: $200 → 13%CA GREY BEARS INC: $200 → 13%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 23 repeat orgs$700 to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
3

Total granted

$151k
$700

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+38%

Still filing today

52%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • CC
    Cabrillo College Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +153%
  • PV
    PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +140%
  • TK
    TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +737%

Funded once

  • ML
    MARIA LINATE FUNDRAISER
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • TS
    The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue +38%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PIONEER PARK
    one grant, 2021 · $100
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
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
4
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
6
Museo Eduardo Carrillo
Arts & Culture
7
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
8
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

—
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
Sonoma Botanical Garden
—
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Land Trust of Santa Cruz County; the most unlike its peers is Family Service Agency of the Central Coast. 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

14 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. 14 of the 27 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SECOND HARVEST FOOD: $13,300 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOODHOSPICE CARING PROJECT: $13,100 · OtherHOSPICE CARING PROJECTIndividual grant recipient: $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAVE OUR SHORES: $5,650 · OtherSAVE OUR SHORESRIO DEL MAR IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 · OtherRIO DEL MAR IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INCFOSTER GRANDPARENT PROJECT: $2,443 · OtherFRIENDS OF SC STATE PARKS: $2,361 · OtherGIRLS INC OF CENTRAL COAST: $1,986 · Other+9 more: $6,050 · Other+9 moreCabrillo College Foundation: $34,550 · EducationCabrillo College Foundati…PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $25,000 · Human ServicesPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER …GREY BEARS: $4,880 · Human ServicesGREY BEARSFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $1,192 · Human ServicesTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT: $15,700 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN KITCHE…ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1,812 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1,380 · Arts & CultureLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $5,000 · EnvironmentInland Empire Community Foundation: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$58,890Education$34,550Human Services$31,072Youth Development$15,700Arts & Culture$6,192Environment$5,000Philanthropy$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $34,550 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $25,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT: $15,700 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSAVE OUR SHORES: $5,650 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREY BEARS: $4,880 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1,812 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1,380 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $1,192 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SAVE OUR SHORES ↗
  • Who funds LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GREY BEARS ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Monterey Peninsula Fo…Community Foundation …Volunteer Centers of …William J Codiga Fami…Sutter Bay Medical Fo…Sutter Bay HospitalsDignity HealthSilicon Valley Commun…East Bay Community Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Ibm International Fou…National Philanthropi…
Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · William J Codiga Family Foundation · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Dignity Health · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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