Funding search · EIN 137219308 · Fairfield, CT

The Betsy and Jesse Fink

Name: The Betsy and Jesse Fink grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

104
grants reported: $4.9M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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Esf College Foundation7 grants · $750,000
Renaissance Charitable Foundation4 grants · $620,000
Refed9 grants · $608,000
Denver Film Society2 grants · $500,000
Renaissance Charitable2 grants · $450,000
Earthjustice3 grants · $300,000
Island Grown Initiative Ltd3 grants · $280,000
Biodiversityworks7 grants · $254,718
Harlem Grown4 grants · $200,000
Center for Responsible Travel (Crest)4 grants · $113,941

Giving over time

$1.6M

2022

$1.6M

2023

$1.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 104 grants.

$250,000
Denver Film Society · Denver, CO · 2024
Grant area: 501c entity for funding to denver film society (grant to exposure labs for film braiding sweetgrass)
$250,000
Renaissance Charitable Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
Charitable distribution to fund renaissance charitable foundation daf
$250,000
Denver Film Society · Denver, CO · 2023
Grant area: 501c entity for funding to exposure labs for film braiding sweetgrass
$250,000
Renaissance Charitable · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
Grant to renaissance charitable daf
$230,000
Renaissance Charitable Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
Charitable distribution to fund renaissance charitable foundation daf
$200,000
Esf College Foundation · Syracuse, NY · 2022
Grant area: sustainable communities & misc (center for native peoples; restoration science)
$200,000
Renaissance Charitable · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
Grant to renaissance charitable daf
$125,000
Esf College Foundation · Syracuse, NY · 2024
Grant area: sustainable communities (restoration sci. Cntr pollinator ecologist position, program)
$125,000
Esf College Foundation · Syracuse, NY · 2023
Grant area: sustainable communities - restoration science center pollinator ecologist position and program
$125,000
Island Grown Initiative Ltd · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2023
Grant area: sustainable food systems (pmt #2 of 2 per 2022-23 capital campaign)
$125,000
Island Grown Initiative Ltd · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems (support igi's 2022-23 capital campaign)
$125,000
Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems (general operating support)
$105,400
Impact Assets · Rockville, MD · 2023
Grant area: contribution to impact assets daf; increase in loc to island housing trust (per aug 2023 make it happen fund agmt)
$100,000
Earthjustice · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats & biodiversity (1st of 3 annual grants; land wildlife & oceans)
$100,000
Esf College Foundation · Syracuse, NY · 2024
Grant area: sustainable communities & misc (center for native peoples and robin kimmerer)
$100,000
Esf College Foundation · Syracuse, NY · 2024
Grant area: sustainable communities (support career dev. Program)
$100,000
Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2024
Grant area: sustainable food systems (multi-year gift)
$100,000
Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2024
Grant area: food waste (ai & technology)
$100,000
Earthjustice · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats & biodiversity (3rd of 3 annual grants of $100k) never rest campaign: land wildlife & ocean
$100,000
Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2023
Grant area: sustainable food systems (pmt #1 of 3 per multi-year gift agmt dated 10-14-22)
$100,000
Earthjustice · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Grant area: resilient habitats & biodiversity (2nd of 3 annual grants of $100k)
$90,000
Renaissance Charitable Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
Charitable distribution to renaissance charitable foundation (daf)
$75,000
Harlem Grown · New York, NY · 2023
Grant area: sustainable food systems ($50k for fellowship program and $25k for general operating expenses)
$55,000
Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2023
Grant area: sustainable food systems/communities ($25k summit scholarship, $15k summit keynote speaker, $15k edf fellow)
$50,000
Biodiversityworks · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats: mv atlas of life expenses (staff salary, program admin; jan. - june 2024)
$50,000
Esf College Foundation · Syracuse, NY · 2023
Grant area: sustainable communities (support career dev. Program) ($250k over 5 yrs)
$50,000
Harlem Grown · New York, NY · 2023
Grant area: sustainable food systems (general operating support)
$50,000
Renaissance Charitable Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
Charitable distribution to renaissance charitable foundation (daf)
$50,000
Esf College Foundation · Syracuse, NY · 2022
Grant area: sustainable communities (support career dev. Program) ($250k over 5 yrs)
$50,000
Harlem Grown · New York, NY · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems ($50k in accordance with agmt dated 8/16/21)
$50,000
National Geographic Society · Washington, DC · 2022
Grant area: resilient habitats biodiversity (hubbard council annual installment, pmt #5 of 5 yr commitment)
$50,000
Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems (support refed's catalytic grant fund)
$49,953
Center for Responsible Travel (Crest) · Washington, DC · 2022
Grant area: sustainable communities (operational grant, 2nd pmt for fy 2020-2021)
$47,500
Biodiversityworks · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats: mv atlas of life expenses (staff salary, program admin; july - dec. 2024)
$42,984
Biodiversityworks · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats; mv atlas of life expenses jan-june 2023
$42,954
Biodiversityworks · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2022
Grant area: resilient habitats, human capital (2022 support for mv atlas of life prog. Jan - aug)
$38,584
Biodiversityworks · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats; mv atlas of life expenses jun-dec 2023; staff salary, program admin, indirect)
$32,484
Center for Responsible Travel (Crest) · Washington, DC · 2023
Grant area: sustainable communities (operating support grant payment #2 - fiscal year 2023-2024)
$30,000
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats: (restoring grasslands, bison acr. No. Great plains & thriving mex. Pacific)
$30,000
Island Grown Initiative Ltd · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2023
Grant area: sustainable food systems (for the procurement of a new loader for igi's compost operation)
$30,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · Hagerstown, MD · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats (split evenly b/t neonicotinoids and the wildlife protection programs)
$30,000
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats: funds split evenly between restoring grasslands & bison across the northern great plains and securing a thriving mexican pacific
$28,000
Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2023
Grant area: sustainable food systems/communities (for operational funding support of refed's roadmap at cop)
$25,000
Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2024
Grant area: sustainable food systems (summit scholarships for edf fellows)
$25,000
Center for Independent Documentary · Newton, MA · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats (funds for "follow the journey" film about the right whale)
$25,000
The Xerces Society · Portland, OR · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats (program for expanding pollinator habitats in the northeast)
$25,000
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2022
Grant area: resilient habitats & biodiversity (wildlife protection and food waste solutions)
$25,000
Harlem Grown · New York, NY · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems (general operating support)
$25,000
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2022
Grant area: human rights (ukraine relief)
$25,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · Hagerstown, MD · 2022
Grant area: resilient habitats (split evenly b/t wildlife conservation and wilderness protection)
$25,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Grant area: sustainable communities (center for sustainable business internship program)
$25,000
Refed · Long Island City, NY · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems (2022 food waste solutions summit - scholarship sponsor)
$25,000
Replate · Oakland, CA · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems (general operating funds)
$25,000
Utah Film Center · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Grant area: environment (support for outreach of into the weeds film on glyphosates)
$23,988
Center for Responsible Travel (Crest) · Washington, DC · 2024
Grant area: sustainable communities: operating support (fiscal year 2024-2025)
$21,696
Biodiversityworks · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2022
Grant area: resilient habitats; support mval program staff & expenses sept - dec 2022
$20,000
The Xerces Society · Portland, OR · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats (program for expanding pollinator habitats in the ne)
$20,000
The Wild Center · Tupper Lake, NY · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats (general support)
$15,000
Mass Audubon Society · Lincoln, MA · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats (felix neck wildlife sanctuary)
$15,000
Walking Mountains Science Center · Avon, CO · 2024
Grant area: environmental (general support)
$15,000
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2024
Grant area: sustainable communities (ukraine and gaza relief)
$15,000
Walking Mountains Science Center · Avon, CO · 2023
Grant area: environmental (general support)
$11,000
Biodiversityworks · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2022
Grant area: resilient habitats; support marketing budget for mval program
$10,000
American Bird Conservancy · The Plains, VA · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats (general support)
$10,000
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2024
Grant area: human rights (general operations)
$10,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · Hagerstown, MD · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats (wildlife protection programs)
$10,000
Sharing Excess · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Grant area: sustainable food systems (sourcing, gleaning & delivering food wkly to harlem grown)
$10,000
Wildlife Conservation Society · Bronx, NY · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats (land conservation efforts)
$10,000
American Bird Conservancy · The Plains, VA · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats (general support)
$10,000
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association · Kempton, PA · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats (general support)
$10,000
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2023
Grant area: human rights (general operations)
$10,000
Mass Audubon Society · Lincoln, MA · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats (felix neck wildlife sanctuary)
$10,000
Woodwell Climate Research Center · Falmouth, MA · 2023
Grant area: sustainable communities: support for a study with mvc climate task force
$10,000
Student Conservation Association · Charlestown, NH · 2022
Grant area: environmental (earth month program)
$10,000
Utah Film Center · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Grant area: environment (support for film "one point five" re climate change)
$10,000
Walking Mountains Science Center · Avon, CO · 2022
Grant area: environmental (general operating fund)
$10,000
Woodwell Climate Research Center · Falmouth, MA · 2022
Grant area: sustainable communities (support for study with mvc climate task force)
$10,000
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2022
Grant area: sustainable communities (ukraine relief)
$7,516
Center for Responsible Travel (Crest) · Washington, DC · 2023
Grant area: sustainable communities (operating support grant payment #1 - fiscal year 2023-2024)
$5,000
Center for Ecotechnology (Cet) · Dalton, MA · 2024
Grant area: sustainable food systems & food waste (general support)
$5,000
Food Tank · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Grant area: sustainable food systems & food waste (general support)
$5,000
Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Grant area: sustainable food systems & food waste (general support toward food waste solutions)
$5,000
National Audubon Society · New York, NY · 2024
Grant area: sustainable communities & climate (iain nicholson center at rowe sanctuary, gibbon, ne)
$5,000
Perfect Earth Project · Bridgehampton, NY · 2024
Grant area: resilient habitats (chem land mgmt awareness; prfct earth; 2/3 for the birds
$5,000
The Trustees · Boston, MA · 2024
Grant area: sustainable communities (the farm institute scholarship for mv)
$5,000
Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Grant area: sustainable food systems & food waste (general support toward initiatives for food waste solutions)
$5,000
Just Capital Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Grant area: miscellaneous - general/environmental pollution - company rankings
$5,000
Mass Audubon Society · Lincoln, MA · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats (mv youth climate leadership program)
$5,000
National Audubon Society · New York, NY · 2023
Grant area: sustainable communities & climate (directed to rowe sanctuary, gibbon, ne)
$5,000
Natureserve · Arlington, VA · 2023
Grant area: sustainable habitats (general support)
$5,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Grant area (cf): sustainable communities (center for sustainable business internship program)
$5,000
Student Conservation Association · Charlestown, NH · 2023
Grant area: environmental - general support
$5,000
Center for Ecotechnology · Dalton, MA · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems & food waste (general support)
$5,000
Food Tank · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems & food waste (general support)
$5,000
Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Grant area: sustainable food systems & food waste (general support)
$5,000
Just Capital Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Grant area: miscellaneous - general/environmental pollution - company rankings
$5,000
National Audubon Society · New York, NY · 2022
Grant area: sustainable communities & climate (directed to rowe sanctuary, gibbon, ne)
$5,000
Walking Mountains Science Center · Avon, CO · 2022
Grant area: environmental (inspirer level sponsor: climb it for climate)
$3,000
Fuel Program · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2023
Grant area: resilient habitats: environmental education thru guided sailing (scholarships)
$2,500
Walking Mountains Science Center · Avon, CO · 2024
Grant area: environmental (sponsorship of environmental film series)

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