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Russell Reineke 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.

$314k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

International$321kReligion$310kPhilanthropy$134kEducation$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kHealth$29kHuman Services$27kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $250k
$2,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH$40,000
MERCY SHIPS$40,000
NEW HOPE FOUNDATION$40,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$30,000
CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD$20,000
FINCA INTERNATIONAL$10,000
UNBOUND$10,000
CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES NIGERIA INC$10,000
BENEDICTINE MISSION HOUSE$10,000
SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE TRINITY$10,000
FEED THE HUNGRY$10,000
HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF MARY IMMA$6,000
KUEMPER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$6,000
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 (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 8%UNBOUND: $10k → 16%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 8%UNBOUND: $7k → 16%UNBOUND: $7k → 16%UNBOUND: $6k → 16%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%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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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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$971k · 50 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
17

Total granted

$971k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+14%

Still filing today

40%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionEnvironmentHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • Mercy Ships International
    4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +35%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +20%
  • KC
    KUEMPER CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • NH
    NEW HOPE VILLAGE
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +12%
  • NC
    NEW CREATION PREGANCY RESOURCE CENT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • SM
    SALESIAN MISSIONS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k

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
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
2
Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health
3
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
4
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

5
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
6
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

7
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
8
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
9
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
10
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
11
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
12
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Hope Foundation. 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 backsteadyCommunity Health CentersCancer Support OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Land Conservation Organizat…Government Accountability R…Christian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,521

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

31 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. 31 of the 70 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW HOPE FOUNDATION — $133,000 · OtherNEW HOPE FOUNDATIONCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC — $90,000 · OtherCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INCST JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC CHURCH — $70,619 · OtherST JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC CHURCHHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC — $30,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE TRINITY — $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE — $25,000 · Other+45 more — $256,612 · Other+45 moreMercy Ships International — $80,000 · InternationalMercy Ships InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $80,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES US…CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC — $70,500 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BO…FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $20,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC+1 more — $500 · InternationalUnbound — $39,920 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $4,000 · Human ServicesKUEMPER CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $31,470 · Education40 DAYS FOR LIFE — $5,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $2,000 · Education+1 more — $25 · EducationCLARETIAN MISSIONARIES NIGERIA INC — $20,000 · ReligionETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $3,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC — $1,850 · ReligionREFORM AMERICA — $1,000 · ReligionJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $20,000 · Public BenefitIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EnvironmentCARROLL COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentWHITEROCK CONSERVANCY — $4,170 · Environment
Other$635,231International$251,000Human Services$43,920Education$38,495Religion$25,850Public Benefit$20,000Environment$17,170

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 budgetNEW HOPE FOUNDATION — $133,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetMercy Ships International — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC — $70,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound — $39,920 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKUEMPER CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $31,470 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLARETIAN MISSIONARIES NIGERIA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE VILLAGE — $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWHITEROCK CONSERVANCY — $4,170 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE INC — $3,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTORI'S ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE — $2,110 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC — $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREFORM AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Meals USA Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA BICYCLE COALITION INC — $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $25 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 NEW HOPE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC
  • Who funds Unbound
  • Who funds KUEMPER CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES NIGERIA INC
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds NEW HOPE VILLAGE
  • Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC
  • Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE
  • Who funds CARROLL COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
  • Who funds AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE 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.

The Salem FoundationOR13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Salem Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Russell Reineke 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%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 70 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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