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The Rick Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$327k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Rick Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthReligionHuman ServicesInternationalEducationAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$14k0%
FY20244$16k50%
FY20233$17k67%
FY20227$11k14%
FY202113$16k38%
FY202011$14k45%
FY201915$13k67%
FY20187$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$55kReligion$21kEducation$12kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$4kAnimals$3kHousing & Shelter$2kInternational$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Michigan$28,00042%
Mosaic Counseling$11,00060%
Whitworth University$10,00010%
Fruitport Community Church$8,0002n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$7,0001n/a
Volunteer for Dental$3,00031%
Lakeshore Pregnancy Center Inc$3,00030%
Focus on the Family$3,0004n/a
Feeding America West Michigan$2,51530%
Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf$2,51130%
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All grantees of The Rick Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Michigan$28,00042%
Mosaic Counseling$11,00060%
Whitworth University$10,00010%
Fruitport Community Church$8,0002n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$7,0001n/a
Volunteer for Dental$3,00031%
Lakeshore Pregnancy Center Inc$3,00030%
Focus on the Family$3,0004n/a
Feeding America West Michigan$2,51530%
Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf$2,51130%
Mission for Area People$2,00020%
The People Center Inc$2,00021%
Muskegon Rescue Mission$1,5002n/a
Noah Project$1,50040%
Mercy Ships International$1,00010%
Every Woman's Place Inc$1,00010%
Michigan Sportsmen Against Hunger$1,00011%
American Legion Post 0028$50010%
First Priority of Muskegon$50011%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50010%
Kids' Food Basket Inc$50010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rick Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $28,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMosaic Counseling: $11,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWhitworth University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer for Dental: $3,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLakeshore Pregnancy Center Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America West Michigan: $2,515 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCaribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf: $2,511 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMission for Area People: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe People Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNoah Project: $1,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvery Woman's Place Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMichigan Sportsmen Against Hunger: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 0028: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Priority of Muskegon: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids' Food Basket Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Grand Haven Area Community Foundation IncMI17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · United Way of the Lakeshore · Consumers Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About The Rick Family Foundation

How much does The Rick Family Foundation give?
The Rick Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $14,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Rick Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Religion (20%), Education (11%).
Who are The Rick Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($28k), Mosaic Counseling ($11k), Whitworth University ($10k).
Does The Rick Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Rick Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Rick Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Muskegon County, United Way of the Lakeshore.
Where is The Rick Family Foundation based?
The Rick Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 32 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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