GrantmakersKentucky

Finishing Fund Management

Prospect, KY · EIN 82-2745658. Reported 94 grants totalling $13.3M to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

42organizations funded
$95,004median reported grant
$13.3Mgranted, 2021-2024
65%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Finishing Fund Management, the IRS classifies it under religion rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE X20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 65% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $95,004. Half of what it reported fell between $32,500 and $172,410; the smallest was $5,871 and the largest $824,385. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
19 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
29 grants
$250,000 Or More
16 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
New Covenant Missions IncCoeur D Alene, ID$1,489,972442024
E3 Partners MinistryPlano, TX$1,475,886442024
Team Expansion Ministries IncLouisville, KY$1,193,534442024
The Timothy Initiative IncRaleigh, NC$934,385222024
Global Catalytic NetworkRockledge, FL$860,423332024
Friends of Agape IncColorado Spgs, CO$803,013442024
Reaching Unreached Nations IncVirginia Bch, VA$700,000112021
By the Spirit MinistriesLexington, KY$689,640222024
International Generosity Foundation TrustClearwater, FL$579,170332024
Global Fellowship IncMeadow Vista, CA$507,000442024
Impact IndonesiaFayetteville, GA$467,600442024
Harvesters Ministries IncFort Mill, SC$420,300332024
Christian Aid MissionCharlottesvle, VA$373,600442024
Minorities for Christ InternationalRipon, CA$337,212222022
Friends of India NetworkSacramento, CA$325,000332024
Priority Living IncCorona, CA$274,413332024
International Christian Response -- USALynden, WA$240,000332023
We Ignite NationsArvada, CO$240,000222024
Africa Inland Mission International IncorporatedPeachtree Cty, GA$170,351332023
East-West Ministries InternationalPlano, TX$156,379222024
Deafway GlobalBrentwood, TN$113,750332023
Africans Reaching Africa IncGranger, IN$112,600332024
UnfoldingwordOrlando, FL$100,000112023
ActbeyondRichardson, TX$91,770112024
Gti HopeSan Dimas, CA$88,750332024
Cush Empowerment GroupDallas, TX$62,100222023
Renew World Outreach IncStone Mtn, GA$61,109112022
Love Counts NowLincoln, NE$51,048332024
PROJECT42Apple Valley, MN$50,000112023
Luke World MissionWhitestone, NY$42,000112022
All Nations International IncKansas City, MO$40,000112024
Mission IndiaKentwood, MI$38,400112022
Horn of Africa MissionMountain View, CA$35,000222024
Epic International CorporationHouston, TX$34,275332023
D O O R InternationalGrand Rapids, MI$34,263112023
Reaching Indians Ministries International IncLindenhurst, IL$30,333112024
Givers Legacy Foundation IncClearwater, FL$24,900112021
Disciple Makers IncCovington, KY$12,480112023
Disciplemakers IncState College, PA$12,480112021
Bethany Fellowship IncBloomington, MN$9,750112021
Big Life International IncBlue Ridge, GA$6,800112021
Global Service Network IncApex, NC$5,871112022

26 of 42 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Religion
25 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
International Affairs
2 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202121$2,673,538$30,333
202224$2,432,281$92,300
202326$2,769,504$65,841
202423$5,420,234$150,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

14% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Kentucky
$1.9M
Texas
$1.8M
California
$1.6M
Florida
$1.6M
Idaho
$1.5M
Virginia
$1.1M
Colorado
$1.0M
North Carolina
$940K

Down to the city

Plano, TX
$1.6M
Coeur D Alene, ID
$1.5M
Louisville, KY
$1.2M
Raleigh, NC
$934K
Rockledge, FL
$860K
Colorado Spgs, CO
$803K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc40 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund34 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc31 shared recipientsServant Foundation24 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program18 shared recipientsThe Signatry Charitable Trust15 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $95,004 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kentucky.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Finishing Fund Management's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 8902 Coltsfoot Trace, Prospect, KY, 40059.

EIN 82-2745658 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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