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The Rink Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rink Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$127kYouth Development$63kRecreation & Sports$36kHealth$14kReligion$11kPhilanthropy$7kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$718k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
HOOSIERS FOR GOOD$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON$6,750
YMCA$2,000
NEW HOPE FOR FAMIILIES$250
HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK$250
19TH CENTURY CLUB$200
Individual grant recipient$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%WILDCATS BASEBALL CLUB: $21k → 12%DECATUR TWP EDUCATION FDN: $500 → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%DECATUR TOWNSHIP ED FDN: $250 → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 18%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%DECATUR TOWNSHIP ED FDN: $250 → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $22k → 18%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%RILEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $400 → 16%HOOSIERS FOR GOOD: $15k → 18%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%RILEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250 → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%IVY TECH FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%IU FOUNDATION WELL SOCIETY: $10k → 18%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $6k → 18%INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 18%IU FOUNDATION WELL SOCIETY: $3k → 18%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 18%INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 18%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 18%INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 18%HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK: $500 → 18%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - BLOOMINGTON: $500 → 18%GIRLS INC: $250 → 18%HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK: $250 → 18%HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK: $250 → 18%HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK: $250 → 18%COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $250 → 18%IU FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM: $3k → 18%IU AUDITORIUM: $3k → 18%YMCA: $2k → 18%MONROE COUNTY YMCA: $1k → 18%YMCA OF MONROE COUNTY: $1k → 18%YMCA OF MONROE COUNTY: $1k → 18%FOUNDATION OF MONROE CTY SCHOOL: $500 → 18%UNITED WAY OF MONROE COUNTY: $1k → 18%UNITED WAY OF MONROE COUNTY: $1k → 18%UNITED WAY OF MONROE COUNTY: $1k → 18%UNITED WAY OF MONROE COUNTY: $1k → 18%UNITED WAY OF MONROE COUNTY: $1k → 18%COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $500 → 18%NEW HOPE FOR FAMILIES: $500 → 18%NEW HOPE FOR FAMIILIES: $350 → 18%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$207k · 14 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

$207k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+22%

Still filing today

57%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $94k · revenue +30%
  • DePauw University
    5× · 2018–2023 · $14k · revenue +31%
  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association of Monroe County Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • WB
    WILDCATS BASEBALL CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $21k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +22%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
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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2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
Indy Hunger Network Inc

The mission of indy hunger network is to address systemic hunger issues and eliminate disparities in the greater indianapolis hunger relief system through collaboration on programs, advocacy, and research.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoosier Hills Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Hope Family Shelter 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

12 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. 12 of the 33 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana University Foundation: $94,000 · EducationIndiana University FoundationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INCDePauw University: $14,250 · EducationDePauw University+1 more: $2,500 · EducationWILDCATS BASEBALL CLUB: $20,900 · OtherWILDCATS BASEBALL CLUBHOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC: $15,000 · OtherHOOSIERS FOR GOOD INCIU FOUNDATION WELL SOCIETY: $13,000 · OtherIU FOUNDATION WELL SOCIETYFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,500 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $2,650 · Other+18 more: $15,475 · Other+18 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC: $62,255 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BL…UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $750 · PhilanthropyHOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC: $1,250 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $500 · Food & NutritionNEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Education$125,750Other$77,525Youth Development$62,255Philanthropy$6,750Food & Nutrition$1,750Housing & Shelter$500

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 budgetIndiana University Foundation: $94,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC: $62,255 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDePauw University: $14,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Monroe County Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC: $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.

  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds DePauw University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Monroe County Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗

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.

Curry Family Foundati…The Seven Kids Founda…The Smithville Charit…Duke Energy FoundationInternal Medicine Ass…Webster Gladstone Fou…Asante Foundation IncBaird Foundation IncThe Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Curry Family Foundation IncIN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Curry Family Foundation Inc · The Seven Kids Foundation Inc · The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Internal Medicine Associates Healthcare Foundation Inc · Webster Gladstone Foundation Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Rink Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rink Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–5%
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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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