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Rinker Family 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.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$238kReligion$143kHuman Services$101kYouth Development$67kEducation$27kInternational$27kHousing & Shelter$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITANS PURSE$27,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
FRANKLIN CHRISTIAN CHURCH$10,000
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL$5,000
RALLY FOUNDATION$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
PARKINSON FOUNDATION$1,500
USDSA$1,000
CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS$1,000
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 (FY23–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Kids Wish Network: $3k → 12%Christian Appalachian Project: $2k → 26%The Refuge Center For Counsel: $20k → 4%The Refuge Center For Counsel: $11k → 4%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MI
NY
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IN
MO
KY
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DC
GA
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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.

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$387k · 18 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
34

Total granted

$387k
$261k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+14%

Still filing today

44%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

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

  • LI
    LOVEWAY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +114%
  • RF
    RALLY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +48%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    2× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • NL
    New Life Home Church
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • JM
    Joyce Myers Ministries
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • FS
    FIVE STAR LIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +147%

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
Miracle Farm Inc

Miracle farm provides an environment for christ to forge young men of integrity who are firmly connected to the sense of security, acceptance, and significance that comes from an identity in christ.

2
Miracle Flights

Miracle flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.

3
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
4
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
5
Special Equestrians Inc

To provide therapeautic benefits to handicapped citizens through a horseback riding program.

Health
6
The Shriners' Hospital for Children

Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)

Health
7
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
8
Conquering Congenital Heart Disease

At conquering chd we exist to conquerin the most common birth defect. we engage, listen, learn, and act. we create visibility and empower all impacted by chd. we accomplish this through awareness, knowledge, community and research.

Health
9
The Retreat Home for Children

Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.

Crime & Legal
10
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
11
Children's Miracle Network

Children's miracle network (dba "children's miracle network hospitals") works to save kids' lives by bringing people together to raise money for children's healthcare in local communities.

Unclassified
12
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Five Star Life Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsAffordable Housing Developm…Veteran Support ServicesYouth Sports Booster Organi…Animal Rescue and AdoptionSubstance Abuse TreatmentCommunity Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
8%
2/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,540

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.

04the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

New Life Home Church — $75,000 · OtherNew Life Home ChurchFRANKLIN CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $36,000 · OtherFRANKLIN CHRISTIAN CHURCHJoyce Myers Ministries — $25,000 · OtherJoyce Myers MinistriesIndividual grant recipient — $24,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient5 STAR LIFE — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $17,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS — $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR HEALING AND HOPE — $15,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club Middle TN — $15,000 · Other+34 more — $157,123 · Other+34 moreLOVEWAY INC — $58,500 · HealthLOVEWAY INCSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $32,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FO…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $26,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATIO…Angel Heart Farm Inc — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $5,000 · HealthRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $42,000 · PhilanthropyTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC — $30,800 · Human ServicesKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $27,000 · ReligionFIVE STAR LIFE INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBACKFIELD IN MOTION — $22,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$400,123Health$127,500Philanthropy$42,000Human Services$35,300Religion$27,000Youth Development$25,000Recreation & Sports$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOVEWAY INC — $58,500 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $42,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC — $30,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $26,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIVE STAR LIFE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION — $22,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALING AND HOPE — $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROSE HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMYTEAM TRIUMPH INC — $3,207 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSADDLE UP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIJAH'S HEART — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds LOVEWAY INC
  • Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FIVE STAR LIFE INC
  • Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HEALING AND HOPE
  • Who funds HOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds THE ROSE HOME INC
  • Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds Angel Heart Farm Inc
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity
  • Who funds MYTEAM TRIUMPH INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KIDS WISH NETWORK INC

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.

Community Foundation of Elkhart County IncIN17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation

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 Rinker 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Rinker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rinker Family Foundation 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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