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The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$42k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2026
17
Organizations funded FY2025
6%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,800
Largest grant, FY2026
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 19
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
4
Total assets, FY2026
$648k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 6% of the organizations The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving16$41k6%
FY202517$39k6%
FY202419$40k47%
FY202312$44k17%
FY202212$46k25%
FY202110$43kn/a
81% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$45kArts & Culture$32kPhilanthropy$21kRecreation & Sports$20kInternational$17kReligion$12kHuman Services$9kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America$25,00060%
Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy$19,80050%
The Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc$12,90040%
Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind$10,80050%
Gratz College$8,30010%
Impact100 Philadelphia Inc$7,10060%
New York Law School$6,00030%
Walnut Street Theatre Corporation$5,50030%
Har Zion Temple$5,0002n/a
Lankenau Medical Center Foundation$3,00030%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$3,00030%
Support Center for Child Advocates$3,00030%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$2,0001n/a
New York Cancer Foundation$1,50010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($139k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJack M Barrack Hebrew Academy: $19,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc: $12,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIsrael Guide Dog Center for the Blind: $10,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGratz College: $8,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetImpact100 Philadelphia Inc: $7,100 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Law School: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWalnut Street Theatre Corporation: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLankenau Medical Center Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Cancer Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Julius & Ray Charlestein FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Julius & Ray Charlestein Foundation · The Barrack Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn

How much does The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn give?
The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn reported 17 grants totaling $42,450 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (15%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America ($25k), Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy ($20k), The Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc ($13k).
Does The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Julius & Ray Charlestein Foundation, The Barrack Foundation, The Saramar Charitable Fund.
Where is The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn based?
The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn is based in PA.

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 28 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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