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· Private foundation
THE WILLIAM AND GINNY FINK FAMILY
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$14k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
7
Communities
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of THE WILLIAM AND GINNY FINK FAMILY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,750
Median grant
7
States reached
$309k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CATO INSTITUTE$2,500
- LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE$2,250
- INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE$2,000
- CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE$1,750
- FUTURE OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION$1,750
- ATLAS NETWORK$750
- COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$750
- FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION$750
- EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$500
- INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$500
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 7%. 74% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$62k · 10 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
1
Total granted
$62k
$2k
Still filing today
80%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Civil RightsPublic BenefitSocial ScienceEnvironmentOther
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
- CICato Institute5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +71%
- TIThe Independent Institute5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +116%
- LVLudwig Von Mises Institute4× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +294%
Funded once
- LVLudwig Von Miles Instituteone grant, 2021 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
The Libertarian Institute
Provide information regarding libertarian principles.
Education
2
American Institute for Economic
Aier conducts independent, scientific, economic research to educate people, thereby advancing their personal interests and those of the nation.
Social Science
3
Libertas Institute
Libertas Institute is a public policy and education organization focused on free markets and individual rights. We generate non-partisan analysis and commentary, conduct investigative research, and publish educational literature to inform…
Public Benefit
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Social Science
5
Contemporary Policy Institute
Philanthropy
6
Independence Institute
Independence institute is established upon the eternal truths of the declaration of independence. founded in 1985, the independence institute is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization, dedicated to providing timely…
Public Benefit
7
Lawfare Institute
Produce scientific content on lawfare and the analysis of emblematic cases of the phenomenon through publication of the lawfare website, podcasts and related media.
Public Benefit
8
Charles Koch Institute
Inspired by a recognition that free people are capable of extraordinary things, stand together fellowships supports educational programs and dialogue to advance these principles, challenge convention, and eliminate barriers that stifle…
Education
9
Liberty Justice Center
To use strategic litigation to advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society
Crime & Legal
10
Economic Policy Institute
Social Science
11
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
Education
12
Institute of Politics Policy and History
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Competitive Enterprise Institute and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Economic Education 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$31,250Public Benefit$12,500Civil Rights$11,250Environment$5,250Social Science$3,750
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 Cato Institute ↗
- Who funds The Independent Institute ↗
- Who funds Ludwig Von Mises Institute ↗
- Who funds The Future of Freedom Foundation ↗
- Who funds Children's Health Defense ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education ↗
- Who funds Competitive Enterprise Institute ↗
- Who funds Institute for Justice ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE WILLIAM AND GINNY FINK FAMILY 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Future of Freedom Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 742543375 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on The Future of Freedom Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The William and Ginny Fink Family?
Find your warmest path to The William and Ginny Fink Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines