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The Finn Family Foundation Inc

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.

$297k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$738kReligion$362kPhilanthropy$295kHealth$259kHuman Services$201kInternational$101kHousing & Shelter$51kCommunity Improvement$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,030
Median grant
16
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SACRED HEART OF GREENWICH$100,000
ST BENEDICTS PREP$25,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$20,000
LOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,585
KIDS IN CRISIS$15,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$15,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$10,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC MARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE$10,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION$7,022
UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH$5,000
THE HAITIAN PROJECT$5,000
THE HAITIAN PROJECT$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION HOPE: $300 → 17%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 54 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
32

Total granted

$2.0M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+60%

Still filing today

48%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • KI
    KIDS IN CRISIS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $182k · revenue +76%
  • Fairfield University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +63%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • SF
    SOUTH FORK HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • LA
    LOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • MH
    MARTIN HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
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
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
5
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
6
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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7
Manhattanville University

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

Education
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
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
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
12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Family First in Education 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST BENEDICTS PREP: $325,000 · OtherST BENEDICTS PREPSACRED HEART OF GREENWICH: $300,000 · OtherSACRED HEART OF GREENWICHKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $181,650 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INCMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $112,000 · OtherMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATIONPROJECT LIFT: $109,000 · OtherPROJECT LIFTUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $102,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INCCLEVELAND CLINIC MARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Other+62 more: $350,360 · Other+62 moreFairfield University: $131,000 · EducationFairfield Univers…SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $105,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'S COLL…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $90,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTO…FAMILY FIRST IN EDUCATION INC: $12,000 · Education+7 more: $10,250 · EducationLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $152,035 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $8,750 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $8,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,030 · PhilanthropyTHE HAITIAN PROJECT INC: $85,000 · InternationalGuatemalan Tomorrow Fund Inc: $16,000 · InternationalJUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENWICH CONN INC: $40,716 · Community ImprovementCANCER COMMONS: $13,040 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $7,100 · HealthTHE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC: $4,000 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $3,000 · Health+4 more: $2,050 · HealthPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $24,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,540,510Education$348,250Philanthropy$169,815International$101,000Community Improvement$40,716Health$39,190Housing & Shelter$24,500

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 budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $181,650 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $152,035 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetFairfield University: $131,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $105,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $102,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAITIAN PROJECT INC: $85,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENWICH CONN INC: $40,716 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $24,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $17,022 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGuatemalan Tomorrow Fund Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCANCER COMMONS: $13,040 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FIRST IN EDUCATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $8,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of York County: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $7,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL MOSIER DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJIMMY LEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetGREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITRS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC: $720 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHPS Helping People Succeed Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTYINC: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE 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 KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE HAITIAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENWICH CONN INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Guatemalan Tomorrow Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds CANCER COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY FIRST IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of York County ↗
  • Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE 5 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.

The per and Astrid He…Fairfield County's Co…Susan R and John W Su…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Lichtenberger Fou…The Old Stones Founda…Charles H and Beverly…Panwy Foundation IncMalkin Fund IncThe Community Foundat…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The per and Astrid Heidenreich Family FoundationCT19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The per and Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Lichtenberger Foundation Inc · The Old Stones Foundation Inc · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · Panwy Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Hope Rural School Inc: 6% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
6report 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
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.
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How do I get to The Finn Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Finn Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 97 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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