· Private foundation
The Finney 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,620 |
| CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHUR | $1,210 |
| UNICEF USA | $1,000 |
| THIRTEEN | $900 |
| FINCA | $900 |
| TONI'S KITCHEN | $800 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $800 |
| TRUSTEES OF PHILIPS ACADEMY | $800 |
| BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION | $750 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN JERSEY | $500 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $500 |
| THE FRESH AIR FUND | $400 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $175) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +95%
FRESH AIR FUND5× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +16%- FIFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONALone grant, 2017 · $1k
- PVPARALYZED VETRANS OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $500
- PPPATERSON PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
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.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Provide fundraising, support, and maintains pooled investments for entities of the mount sinai health system, inc.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOMESTEAD INC OF NANTUCKET ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR AMBULANCE UNIT ↗
- Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE 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.
Open a dossier: Partners for Health Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Uberoi Foundation · The Whitehill Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation · McMullen Family Foundation · The Silver Family Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Finney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Finney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family Promise of Essex County Inc: 33% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum: 11% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- Montclair Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
- Montclair Ambulance Unit: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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