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Frank & Ina Brinton Educational & Charitable at a glance

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Frank & Ina Brinton Educational & Charitable

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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$448kHuman Services$157kAnimals$43kRecreation & Sports$42kEducation$27kPublic Benefit$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$11,399
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$85,030
PAWS AND MORE ANIMAL SHELTER$11,399
FRIENDS OF LAKE DARLING STATE PARK$8,672
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $40k → 10%UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $30k → 10%UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $25k → 10%UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $20k → 10%UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $15k → 10%UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $15k → 10%WCDC INC: $7k → 10%WCDC INC: $3k → 10%WCDC INC: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$911k · 15 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$911k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+879%

Still filing today

60%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $448k · revenue +807%
  • TU
    THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME OF WASHINGTON IOWA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +23%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • LE
    LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • WF
    WASHINGTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +879%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Washington Economic Development Group

Coordinate area economic development

Community Improvement
2
Des Moines Water Works Park Foundation

The des moines water works park foundation is dedicated to developing and executing the master plan created for water works park. the plan turns the park into a national model incorporating recreation, education and conservation within the…

Recreation & Sports
3
Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department of Starke County Indiana

Volunteer fire department

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4
Washington Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and emergency services protection for washington township in grant county indiana.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Washington Volunteer Fire Department

Protection of Rural Homeowners and Property Owners in Washington County Texas.

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6
Iowa West Foundation
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7
West Des Moines Library Friends

Provide financial support to the west des moines library

Education
8
Dyersville Farmers Community Fire Depart

Provide fire protection to the community of dyersville, ia and the surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Washington Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Sq

The washington fire department provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the citizens of the washington area with the highest quality services that answer the needs of the community. preserving life and property is the…

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Washington County Historical Society

County Historical Society - Maintain and develop historical museums, historical sites and materials within Washington County, Minnesota

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11
Washington County Spca Trust
Animals
12
Washington State Potato Foundation

The foundation supports education, research, promotion, and information related to the potato industry in washington state.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Lake Darling Youth Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $448,004 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $118,135 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $43,039 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYCITY OF WASHINGTON IOWA: $27,206 · OtherCITY OF WASHINGTON IOWALAKE DARLING YOUTH CENTER INC: $26,950 · OtherLAKE DARLING YOUTH CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $21,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20,000 · OtherWASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTWASHINGTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $14,470 · OtherCAMP R E E C E: $12,400 · Other+8 more: $27,710 · Other+8 moreTHE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME OF WASHINGTON IOWA: $145,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED PRESBYTE…WCDC INC: $12,231 · Human ServicesWCDC INCFRIENDS OF LAKE DARLING STATE PARK: $11,172 · EnvironmentMAIN STREET WASHINGTON: $4,350 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Education
Philanthropy$448,004Other$311,410Human Services$157,231Environment$11,172Community Improvement$4,350Education$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $448,004 over 9y, 11% of budgetTHE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME OF WASHINGTON IOWA: $145,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $43,039 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetLAKE DARLING YOUTH CENTER INC: $26,950 over 4y, 16% of budgetWCDC INC: $12,231 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKE DARLING STATE PARK: $11,172 over 2y, 15% of budgetMAIN STREET WASHINGTON: $4,350 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetWASHINGTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetIOWA 4-H FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN HOME OF WASHINGTON IOWA ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LAKE DARLING YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds WCDC INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKE DARLING STATE PARK ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Washington County Riv…Amazonsmile Foundation
Washington County Riverboat Foundation IncIA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frank & Ina Brinton Educational & Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank & Ina Brinton Educational & Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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