Indiana · Private foundation
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $106,071
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Rifkin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $440k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $427k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $415k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $341k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $878k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Alliance for Eating Disorders Inc | $696,609 | 5 | 32% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $176,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc | $165,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cancer Alliance of Help and Hope Inc | $93,950 | 5 | 2% |
| Teach Our Children Fund Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 8% |
| The Literacy Alliance Inc | $82,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Indiana Golf Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($199k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rifkin Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Rifkin Family Foundation
- How much does Rifkin Family Foundation give?
- Rifkin Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $540,016 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Rifkin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (36%), Education (22%), Philanthropy (21%).
- Who are Rifkin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: National Alliance for Eating Disorders Inc ($697k), Trustees of Boston University ($300k), Indiana University Foundation ($177k).
- Does Rifkin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rifkin Family 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 Rifkin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, Edward M Wilson Foundation, Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rifkin Family Foundation based?
- Rifkin Family Foundation is based in IN.
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