Florida · Private foundation
The Margaret Finkel Foundation
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.
- $244k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,420
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Margaret Finkel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $244k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $212k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $182k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $215k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $77k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $19k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $201k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $329k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chabad of the Emerald Coast Inc | $368,070 | 8 | n/a |
| All Sports Association Inc | $145,800 | 4 | 18% |
| SafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Destin High School Inc | $65,625 | 3 | 1% |
| Walton County Fair Inc | $37,577 | 4 | 9% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $35,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Angel Flight Soars Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children of the Night | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chabad of the Emerald Coast Inc | $368,070 | 8 | n/a |
| All Sports Association Inc | $145,800 | 4 | 18% |
| SafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Destin High School Inc | $65,625 | 3 | 1% |
| Walton County Fair Inc | $37,577 | 4 | 9% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $35,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Angel Flight Soars Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children of the Night | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Westonwood Ranch Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| National Fire Safety Council Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| First Baptist Church of Destin | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Ellison McCraney Ingram Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Destin Middle School Ptsa | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shining Light Homes | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Grace Lutheran Church | $47 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($725k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Margaret Finkel Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Margaret Finkel Foundation
- How much does The Margaret Finkel Foundation give?
- The Margaret Finkel Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $243,675 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Margaret Finkel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (26%), Religion (13%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Margaret Finkel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chabad of the Emerald Coast Inc ($368k), All Sports Association Inc ($146k), SafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc ($80k).
- Does The Margaret Finkel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Margaret Finkel Foundation 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 Margaret Finkel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Margaret Finkel Foundation based?
- The Margaret Finkel Foundation is based in FL.
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