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Rodney B & Marjorie S Fink Foundation Inc at a glance

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Rodney B & Marjorie S Fink Foundation Inc

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.

$650k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$530kYouth Development$197kPhilanthropy$190kHuman Services$165kInternational$75kEducation$60kCivil Rights$10kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $490k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION$135,000
SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA$105,000
GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
WE ARE FAMILY$50,000
MUSC FOUNDATION$50,000
MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
RAINBOW RAILROAD USA$25,000
CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL$25,000
PEACE CENTER$20,000
THE RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC$20,000
PURE THEATRE$15,000
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$10,000
ALLIANCE FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE$10,000
HALOS$10,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 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 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.
$942k · 12 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$942k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyInternationalEducationOther
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

  • WA
    WE ARE FAMILY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $192k · revenue +125%
  • CA
    CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue +13%
  • Charleston Literary Festival Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $65k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • MI
    METANOIA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • E1
    Every 1 Voice Matters Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.

1
Journey Arts

Boldly leverage the power of the performing arts to catalyze social change, challenge bias, and create spaces for dialogue and understanding by presenting culturally diverse voices that celebrate and affirm our shared humanity.

Arts & Culture
2
North Carolina Performing Arts Center At Charlotte Foundation

To present the best in the performing arts and, in partnership with others, share and employ the arts as a major catalyst to strengthen education, build community cohesiveness, and advance economic growth.

Arts & Culture
3
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
4
Charleston Jazz

To grow and cultivate a local and global community for jazz through performance, education and outreach while celebrating and preserving Charleston's rich history in jazz.

Arts & Culture
5
Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

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6
South Carolina Arts Alliance

Advances and promotes the arts for all south carolinians through advocacy, leadership, development and public awareness.

—
7
The Palmetto Opera

To raise awareness of opera and fine arts in sc.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of the New South Inc

Levine Museum's mission is to connect the past to the future to realize the promises of a New South through exhibits that explore complex chapters in the region's history and programs that launch dialogue, foster empathy, and build an…

Arts & Culture
9
The Richmond Ballet

Through all of its programs, richmond ballet strives to expand access to dance for the benefit of the entire community. at the heart of the organization's mission, to awaken, uplift, and unite human spirits, is the conviction that the…

Arts & Culture
10
Carolina Ballet Inc

Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…

Arts & Culture
11
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc

The woodruff arts center's mission is to inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through a unique model of partnerships and collaborations, and in an institutionally sustainable manner.

Arts & Culture
12
Austin Rainbow Theatre

Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spoleto Festival Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pure Theatre. 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

17 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. 17 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INCCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $110,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF AR…Charleston Literary Festival Inc: $65,000 · Arts & CultureCharleston Literary Festival IncPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER FOUNDATIONRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS …Pure Theatre: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePure TheatreINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCharleston Jewish Federation Inc: $185,000 · PhilanthropyCharleston Jewish Fed…RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyRAINBOW RAILROAD USA …WE ARE FAMILY: $191,923 · Civil RightsWE ARE FAMILYALLIANCE FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE: $10,000 · Civil RightsMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesMORSELIFE FOUN…FOOTSTEPS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INCMUSC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherHALOS: $15,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 · OtherSUNFLOWERS OF HOPE INC: $5,000 · OtherTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $20,000 · InternationalEvery 1 Voice Matters Inc: $5,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$530,000Philanthropy$240,000Civil Rights$201,923Human Services$165,000Other$85,000International$20,000Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $210,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY: $191,923 over 4y, 18% of budgetCharleston Jewish Federation Inc: $185,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $110,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCharleston Literary Festival Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPure Theatre: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMETANOIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEvery 1 Voice Matters Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Coastal Community Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Joanna FoundationRaymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Rodney B & Marjorie S Fink Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rodney B & Marjorie S Fink Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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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Find your warmest path to Rodney B & Marjorie S Fink 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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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