· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD OF THE EMERALD COAST | $150,420 |
| ALL SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $43,200 |
| SILVER SANDS SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NITRO ELEMNTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| EMERALD COAST FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,800 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $5,000 |
| ELKS FOUNDATION | $3,055 |
| FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| FAITHCOAST | $200 |
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 (FY17–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +58%
- MCMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +89%
- DHDESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $66k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- FVFRANKVILLE VOUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2024 · $45k
- PCPENSACOLA CHABAD JEWISH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
- OCOKALOOSA COUNTY SHERIFF DEPTone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Camp one step by children's oncology services is a leader in providing empowering, supportive, educational, and fun experiences for children (ages birth-19) who have been diagnosed with cancer and their families. we are the only local…
See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission
Provides college scholarships and mentoring programs for deserving low-income children whose household income falls below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines from middle school through college.
To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
The mission of the alabama casa network, inc. is to equip and empower casa programs to advocate for all of alabama's abused and neglected children.
To be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.
To improve florida's response to child abuse by supporting the development, growth and continuation of the children's advocacy centers around florida.
To provide hope, support, and encouragement to children who have cancer and thier families.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 61 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 ALL SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WALTON COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds WESTONWOOD RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee 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: American Online Giving 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 Margaret Finkel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Margaret Finkel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers Inc: 81% of income from government
- Destin High School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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