How much does Julie and Al Renken Foundation give?

Julie and Al Renken Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $143,690 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Julie and Al Renken Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (41%), Religion (20%), Human Services (9%).

Who are Julie and Al Renken Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tumaini Fund USA Inc ($381k), Trinity by the Cove Episcopal Church ($188k), Figge Art Museum ($55k).

Does Julie and Al Renken Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Julie and Al Renken Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Julie and Al Renken Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scott County Regional Authority, Quad Cities Community Foundation, Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc.

Where is Julie and Al Renken Foundation based?

Julie and Al Renken Foundation is based in PA.

Julie and Al Renken Foundation

Julie and Al Renken Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Julie and Al Renken Foundation

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.

$144k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$32k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$410kReligion$200kHuman Services$90kArts & Culture$76kEducation$62kFood & Nutrition$58kHousing & Shelter$55kHealth$19kOther$0

02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k38 grants · $61k
$10k–50k4 grants · $83k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$129k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Trinity By The Cove Episcopal Churc	$31,500
Tumiani Fund USA	$25,090
Figge Museum of Art	$15,000
Feeding America	$11,000
St Matthews House	$5,000
Feed The Hungry	$4,500
River Bend Food Bank	$4,050
Save the Children	$4,000
Covenant House	$4,000
The League Club	$3,500
The Salvation Army	$3,000
Mercy Ships	$3,000
Shriners Hospital	$3,000
Doctors Without Borders	$2,500
Heifer International	$2,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$895k · 38 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$895k

$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+30%

Still filing today

66%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

TF
TUMAINI FUND USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $381k · revenue +65%
FA
FIGGE ART MUSEUM
7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +33%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $49k · revenue +1%

Funded once

HF
HAPI FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -15%
TS
THE SALVATION ARMY - HEARTLAND
one grant, 2021 · $10k
WC
Womens Care Center Naples
one grant, 2024 · $5k

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.

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition

Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International

Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition

University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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International Federation of Accountants

Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…

Education

Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International

Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Resources Inc; the most unlike its peers is Motto Family Foundation. 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

58 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. 58 of the 124 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/58

Grantees still filing

36/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$407,955Other$395,258Arts & Culture$59,345Education$55,858Food & Nutrition$54,150Housing & Shelter$17,000Human Services$15,620

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

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.

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.

Scott County Regional AuthorityIA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Julie and Al Renken Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julie and Al Renken Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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