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The Drew and Kathy Rankin Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$71kAnimals$14kYouth Development$13kHealth$8kPhilanthropy$6kHousing & Shelter$4kEducation$4kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE FOR FAMILIES$6,000
2ND FLOOR 180 TURNING LIVES$6,000
MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA$6,000
LIV LIKE A UNICORN$6,000
THE GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$6,000
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 (FY24–24, $6k) 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%SHINE AND INSPIRE: $6k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
NJ
VA
MD
TN
FL
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74k · 7 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$74k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+21%

Still filing today

57%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +47%
  • MC
    MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA
    3× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +18%
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • RF
    RAINE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • GG
    GOOD GRIEF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • SA
    SHINE AND INSPIRE A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · 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
Tuesday's Children

Tuesday's children provides healing and resilience for military families of the fallen and families affected by 9/11, turning pain into purpose while honoring their legacies. we exist to help families of the fallen and the 9/11 community…

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
3
It's About the Warriors Foundation

To assist and empower all post 9/11 veterans and their families from the tri-state area, regardless if they have been wounded or have been deployed, with our various programs thus, leading them to a successful and enriched life.

Public Benefit
4
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
5
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
6
The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation Inc

The mission of the emmanuel cancer foundation (ecf) is to provide new jersey families faced with pediatric cancer a place to turn for comfort and relief through free supportive services tailored to each family.

—
7
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
8
Ronald Mcdonald House of Central & Northern New Jersey Inc

Provide a "home away from home" for the families of seriously ill children receiving care at medical facilities near their locations in new brunswick, neptune and long branch, new jersey.

—
9
Kids in Distress Inc

The mission of the corporation is to prevent child abuse, preserve the family, and treat children who have been abused and neglected.

Human Services
10
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

—
11
Mentis

Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.

Human Services
12
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Disabled American Veterans Clifton City Chapter #2. 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

16 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. 16 of the 23 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE FOR FAMILIES: $15,155 · OtherHOPE FOR FAMILIES2ND FLOOR 180 TURNING LIVES: $11,555 · Other2ND FLOOR 180 TURNING LIVESRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $6,055 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSERAINE FOUNDATION: $5,555 · OtherRAINE FOUNDATIONGOOD GRIEF FOUNDATION: $5,555 · OtherGOOD GRIEF FOUNDATIONNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,600 · OtherNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATIONDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CLIFTON CITY CHAPTER #2: $3,600 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CLIFTON CITY CHAPTER #2+4 more: $4,750 · Other+4 moreGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $18,405 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATIONLIV LIKE A UNICORN: $6,000 · PhilanthropyLIV LIKE A UNICORN+1 more: $750 · PhilanthropyMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA: $12,055 · AnimalsMONMOUTH COUN…POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 · AnimalsPOLAR BEARS I…EASEL ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC: $750 · AnimalsBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $9,155 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girl…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $3,600 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…SHINE AND INSPIRE A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,555 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,600 · EducationHOMEFRONT INC: $750 · EducationDottie's House Inc: $3,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$55,825Philanthropy$25,155Animals$14,305Youth Development$12,755Human Services$5,555Education$4,350Housing & Shelter$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $18,405 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA: $12,055 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $9,155 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIV LIKE A UNICORN: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHINE AND INSPIRE A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,555 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CLIFTON CITY CHAPTER #2: $3,600 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDottie's House Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASEL ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $500 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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Drew and Kathy Rankin Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Drew and Kathy Rankin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 The Drew and Kathy Rankin Family 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 23 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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