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Rifkin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$540k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$1.1MEducation$682kPhilanthropy$650kAnimals$165kRecreation & Sports$130kArts & Culture$100kReligion$80kFood & Nutrition$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $229k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $266k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS INC$106,071
FORT WAYNE JEWISH FEDERATION$100,000
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$60,000
FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC$35,000
MIA'S MIRACLES FOUNDATION$27,785
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION$25,000
TEACH OUR CHILDREN FUND INC$25,000
CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC$21,100
BLESSINGS IN A BACK PACK INC$15,300
THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC$15,000
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$14,910
INT'L ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MIA'S MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $28k → 10%MIA'S MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of Rifkin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Rifkin Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 35 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
16

Total granted

$2.3M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
-3%

Still filing today

77%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $697k · revenue +41% · 32% of their budget
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +34%
  • Indiana University Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $177k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • FF
    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Incgraduated
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • HF
    HOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue -73%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
3
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
4
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
5
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…

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9
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement
11
Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

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12
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Steuben County Humane Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr16%8%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr17%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr17%45%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
14%
2,757/19,599

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FORT WAYNE JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $650,000 · PhilanthropyFORT WAYNE JEWISH FEDERATION…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $150,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Found…+1 more — $250 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $696,609 · HealthNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EAT…+3 more — $18,000 · HealthTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSIT…Individual grant recipient — $74,850 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC — $50,000 · OtherHOOSIERS FOR GOOD INCNICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HC FOUNDATION — $44,500 · OtherNICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HC FOUND…INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · OtherINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INCFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $50,000 · OtherFoundation for the Defense o…MIAS MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC — $47,785 · OtherMIAS MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC+26 more — $152,609 · Other+26 moreIndiana University Foundation — $176,500 · EducationIndiana Universit…CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC — $93,950 · EducationCANCER ALLIANCE O…TEACH OUR CHILDREN FUND INC — $85,000 · EducationTEACH OUR CHILDRE…THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC — $82,500 · EducationTHE LITERACY ALLI…CANTERBURY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Education+4 more — $35,050 · Education+4 moreFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $165,000 · Animals+1 more — $250 · AnimalsFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE BALLET INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $9,500 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $43,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$800,250Health$714,609Other$794,744Education$493,000Animals$165,250Arts & Culture$94,500Youth Development$88,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $696,609 over 5y, 32% of budgetFORT WAYNE JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $650,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $176,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $165,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC — $93,950 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTEACH OUR CHILDREN FUND INC — $85,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC — $82,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC — $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMIAS MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC — $47,785 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND — $45,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $43,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE BALLET INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHEARING THE OVARIAN CANCER WHISPER INC — $14,050 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $7,036 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJACK MARTIN FUND INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTROY Center Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILFORD FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetORLAND COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEP — $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN INDIANA FOUNDATION INC — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEUBEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

English-Bonter-Mitche…Edward M Wilson Found…Lincoln Financial Fou…Community Foundation …Howard P Arnold Found…The Waterfield Founda…Dr Louis a and Anne B…Kuhne Charles Char Fd…Flora Dale Krouse Fou…American Electric Pow…McComb Family Foundat…McMillen Foundation I…
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · McComb Family Foundation Inc Att David McComb · McMillen Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Rifkin Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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