Fine Family Charitable Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 20-8852301. Reported 149 grants totalling $1,094,514 to 70 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,250 and $6,000; 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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston | Boston, MA | $411,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Funds | New York, NY | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Boston Jewish Film Festival | West Newton, MA | $60,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Middle East Peace Dialogue Network | Atco, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Israeli American Council | Woodland Hills, CA | $47,957 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish National Fund | Rockville Center, NY | $44,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $43,100 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| American Friends of Maoz-Seal | Haverhill, MA | $34,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Gann Academy | Waltham, MA | $32,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Reut USA | Woodland Hills, CA | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston | Newton Center, MA | $27,167 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| New London Barn Playhouse | New London, NH | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| 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 | $11,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Vilna Shul Boston's Center for Jewish Culture | Boston, MA | $11,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| John Hay Estate at the Fells | Newbury, NH | $10,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Aid Coalition | Wynnewood, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gateways Access to Jewish Education | Newton Center, MA | $8,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston | Waltham, MA | $7,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Newton-Wellesley Hospital | Newton, MA | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Friends of Yemin Orde Inc (aka Impactisrael Inc) | Needham, MA | $6,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation | New London, NH | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pan-Mass Challenge | Needham, MA | $3,980 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| American Friends of Idc | New York, NY | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Congregation | Waterville, ME | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Impact Israel Inc | Needham, MA | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Upper Valley Jewish Community | Hanover, NH | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tel Aviv Museums American Friends | New York, NY | $3,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boston Public Art Triennial | Boston, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| The Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust | New London, NH | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 2LIFE Communities Services | Brighton, MA | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Friends of Idc Herzliya | New York, NY | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chabad Center of Brookline | Brookline, MA | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Friends of the Arava Institute | Newton Center, MA | $1,360 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Jewish Federations of North America | New York, NY | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston | Brookline, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Breakthrough T1D | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Onetable | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Friends of Tracy Memorial Library | New London, NH | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| New London Outing Club | New London, NH | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| New London Police Benevolent Association | New London, NH | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Fells | Newbury, NH | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| World Jewish Congress | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
27 of 70 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 61%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 103 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
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 |
| 2025 | 32 | $188,050 | $2,500 |
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
61% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
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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