· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| MACCABI USA SPORTS OF ISRAEL | $5,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PENN STATE JEWISH STUDIES | $5,000 |
| BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $4,000 |
| VARIOUS SMALL CONTRIBUTION LESS THAN 1000 - DETAIL AVAILABLE ON REQUEST | $2,000 |
| ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $2,000 |
| NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE HAR ZION | $1,800 |
| AJC | $1,800 |
| IMPACT 100 PHILADELPHIA | $1,250 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES | $1,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–26, $11k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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 BLIND5× · 2022–2026 · $11k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- GCGRATZ COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +55%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HAIFA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- JTJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAone grant, 2025 · $2k
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
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.
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 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 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds New York Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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