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The Rick's Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rick's Family 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$3.1MRecreation & Sports$1.3MHealth$558kYouth Development$542kScience & Tech$200kEnvironment$61kPhilanthropy$52kArts & Culture$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $123k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $595k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE 174 FOUNDATION INC$250,000
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MEMORIAL ASSOC$245,218
PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$200,000
TETON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC$50,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$50,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION GREATER IN$50,000
MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION$30,000
CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BSA$25,000
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MEMORIAL ASSOC$24,142
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FU$14,000
CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS IN$10,000
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIO$10,000
JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF$5,000
KIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SARAH SHULZE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%WHEELER MISSION: $100 → 18%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $1k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $10k → 16%IWIN FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
WY
IN
OH
CA
MO
DC
AL
TX
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 22 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
49

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+9%

Still filing today

55%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $860k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $104k · revenue +17%
  • JH
    JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1.3M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $175k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $126k
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
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
2
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
3
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
5
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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8
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association; the most unlike its peers is In Cure of Ms Inc. 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

43 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. 43 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
15/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,491,858 · OtherRILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $1,255,948 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $175,000 · Other+57 more: $943,889 · Other+57 morePurdue Research Foundation: $200,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $175,872 · Education+4 more: $21,000 · EducationJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $269,360 · PhilanthropyMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $21,270 · PhilanthropyTHE 174 FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $104,000 · HealthTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · Health+6 more: $18,865 · HealthWYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL: $21,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentHOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentSarah Shulze Foundation Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC: $11,000 · Human Services+2 more: $600 · Human Services
Other$4,866,695Education$396,872Philanthropy$320,630Youth Development$251,000Health$172,865Environment$43,750Human Services$26,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $269,360 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $175,872 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $104,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL: $21,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSarah Shulze Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIIBADA DANCERS INC: $14,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $10,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTindley Accelerated Schools Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIndy Honor Flight Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALBION COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIN CURE OF MS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHI KAPPA TAU FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN NYC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGNAW BONE CAMP NATURE PRESERVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $100 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.

Lilly Endowment IncThe Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Lumina Foundation for…Richard M Fairbanks F…The Brave Heart Found…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Ayres Foundation IncEugene & Marilyn Glic…Maurer Family Foundat…Hamilton County Commu…United Way of Central…
Lilly Endowment IncIN32.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Ayres Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc

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 Rick's Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rick's Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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, 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.

    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 89 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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