Fine Family Charitable Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 20-8852301. Reported 117 grants totalling $906,464 to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Fine Family Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,334. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,480 and $6,500; the smallest was $250 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston | Boston, MA | $335,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Funds | New York, NY | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boston Jewish Film Festival | West Newton, MA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Middle East Peace Dialogue Network | Atco, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Israeli American Council | Woodland Hills, CA | $42,957 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish National Fund | Rockville Center, NY | $36,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $33,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Maoz-Seal | Haverhill, MA | $29,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gann Academy | Waltham, MA | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New London Barn Playhouse | New London, NH | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Reut USA | Woodland Hills, CA | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston | Newton Center, MA | $22,167 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Gesher Foundation | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Society of the University of Haifa | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Arts Collaborative | Newton Center, MA | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lake Sunapee Protective Association | Sunapee, NH | $9,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| John Hay Estate at the Fells | Newbury, NH | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston | Waltham, MA | $7,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gateways Access to Jewish Education | Newton Center, MA | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Yemin Orde Inc (aka Impactisrael Inc) | Needham, MA | $6,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Vilna Shul Boston's Center for Jewish Culture | Boston, MA | $5,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Newton-Wellesley Hospital | Newton, MA | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation | New London, NH | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Idc | New York, NY | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Congregation | Waterville, ME | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Upper Valley Jewish Community | Hanover, NH | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tel Aviv Museums American Friends | New York, NY | $3,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pan-Mass Challenge | Needham, MA | $2,730 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Peace of Mind | Edison, NJ | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brothers for Life | Seattle, WA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Yemin Orde Inc | Bethesda, MD | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Yemin Orde Inc (aka Impactisrael Inc) | Bethesda, MD | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| From the Heart Productions | Oxnard, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Shalem Foundation | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Evangelicals for Democracy | Fredericksburg, VA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 2LIFE Communities Services | Brighton, MA | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Friends of Idc Herzliya | New York, NY | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hebrew College | Newton, MA | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston | Newton, MA | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Now and There | Boston, MA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center | Los Angeles, CA | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Jewish Federations of North America | New York, NY | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grow Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jdrf (aka Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International) | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Day School | Watertown, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Family Service of Metrowest | Framingham, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shalva | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Solomon R Guggenheim Museum | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington & Jefferson College | Washington, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Society for Yad Vashem | New York, NY | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chelsea Jewish Lifecare | Chelsea, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Fells | Newbury, NH | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| World Jewish Congress | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Arava Institute | Newton Center, MA | $360 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
26 of 57 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 62%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 83 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $188,333 | $4,100 |
| 2022 | 37 | $239,760 | $2,500 |
| 2023 | 29 | $311,891 | $2,500 |
| 2024 | 25 | $166,480 | $4,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 60% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,334. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Fine Family Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 625 Liberty Avenue 3110, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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