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Rheinfrank Foundation Inc at a glance

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Rheinfrank Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Education$42kHealth$12kEnvironment$2kArts & Culture$1kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$500Human Services$250Public Benefit$250Other$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,202
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$11,202
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $1k → 8%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $26k → 12%VIEWPOINT SCHOOL: $1k → 14%VASSAR COLLEGE: $10k → 9%Gladiolus Learning & Development Center Inc: $250 → 11%ST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $1k → 11%MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 18%The Nature Conservancy: $250 → 7%WILLIAMS SCHOOL: $1k → 19%Root Capital: $1k → 8%Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute: $500 → 12%United Way: $250 → 11%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS: $1k → 8%WILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation: $1k → 11%WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST: $250 → 12%Ding Darling Wildlife Society: $100 → 11%HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC: $100 → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $500 → 11%Mass MOCA Foundation: $500 → 12%Captiva Civic Association Foundation: $250 → 11%Captiva Island Historical Society: $50 → 11%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 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.

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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
4
Williams Memorial Institute

To foster the intellectual, moral, creative, and physical development of students in preparation for college, lifelong learning, and active participation in an evolving world.

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
7
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
8
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
9
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
10
Our Lady of the Woods Corporation

To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.

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11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Williams College; the most unlike its peers is Gladiolus Learning and Development 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

18 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. 18 of the 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Williams College: $25,500 · EducationWilliams CollegeMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationVASSAR COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT…ST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherST ANDREWS SCHOOLTHE WILLIAMS SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherTHE WILLIAMS SCHOOL+5 more: $1,500 · Other+5 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $11,202 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FE…SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION: $500 · EnvironmentHOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $100 · EnvironmentROOT CAPITAL INC: $1,000 · InternationalSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $500 · Arts & CultureCAPTIVA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50 · Arts & CultureWILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST: $250 · PhilanthropyDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $100 · Animals
Education$28,500Other$15,500Health$11,202Environment$1,600International$1,000Arts & Culture$550Philanthropy$250Animals$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliams College: $25,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $11,202 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLIAMS SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPTIVA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50 over 1y, 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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Rheinfrank Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rheinfrank Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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How do I get to Rheinfrank Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rheinfrank Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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