· Public charity
The Rinkle Family Foundation
To support, or carry out the purposes of, the class of 501(c)(3), 509(a)(1), & 509(a)(2) organizations (the "supported class") that promote/perform education and/or christian activities, including (but not limited to) christian evangelism, edification and stewardship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $431,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $461,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
- $250k+1 grant · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLAND LAKES CRISIS NETWORK | $263,500 |
| SPICEWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH | $95,000 |
| K-LOVE RADIO (EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FDN) | $25,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES OF THE VALLEY | $20,000 |
| NEW GENERATIONS | $20,000 |
| CHAMPION MINISTRIES (GROUNDWIRE) | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $271k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EMEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +38%
- SGShepherds Gate5× · 2017–2021 · $193k · revenue +35%
- NGNEW GENERATIONS6× · 2019–2025 · $160k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- BOBLUE OAKS CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $40k
- CMCITYTEAM MINISTRIESgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +50%
- KAK-LOVE & AIR1 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -75%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
To reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
To encourage Christians to be role models- demonstrating that sharing faith ignites everything one says and does with Gods Promise to Make Everying in Life Work for Good, to move everyone, every day closer to Jesus.
Church:assisting with food and supplies for areas devastated by natural disasters around the world.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Our mission is meeting the hurting and broken with the gospel of jesus christ. our vision is changing the world through gospel-focused conversations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND LAKES CRISIS NETWORK DBA ARK OF HIGHLAND LAKES ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Gate ↗
- Who funds NEW GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds EXTOLLO INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Valley Crisis Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PathLight International Inc ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds K-LOVE & AIR1 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP OF THE HILLS ↗
- Who funds SOMEBODY CARES AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Open Doors With Brother Andrew 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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Servant Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 The Rinkle Family 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.
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.
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