· Private foundation
The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACCABI USA SPORTS OF ISRAEL | $5,400 |
| PENN STATE JEWISH STUDIES | $5,000 |
| BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JAFFA INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| VARIOUS SMALL CONTRIBUTION LESS THAN 1000 - DETAIL AVAILABLE ON REQUEST | $2,500 |
| ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $2,000 |
| NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE HAR ZION | $1,800 |
| JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY | $1,800 |
| IMPACT 100 PHILADELPHIA | $1,250 |
| SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JMJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +25%
- TITHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +5%
- IGISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- GCGRATZ COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +55%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HAIFA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- AAJCone grant, 2024 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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Education, research, medical services and other public services.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gratz College and the most unlike its peers is New York Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IMPACT100 PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds New York Cancer Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.