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David & Leighan Rinker Foundation Inc

West Palm Beach, FL · EIN 65-0454037. Reported 49 grants totalling $1,094,638 to 18 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$20,000median grant
$1,094,638granted, 2021-2024
18recipients, as named on its returns
85%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,838,598assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. David & Leighan Rinker Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $20,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $76,046. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
5 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
17 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Oakwood Services InternationalAnnandale, VA$206,421442024
The King's AcademcyWest Palm Beach, FL$163,546442024
Bright BeginningsWashington, DC$105,000442024
Metropolitan MinistriesTampa, FL$100,500442024
Children's Home NetworkTampa, FL$88,750442024
Mcclean School of MarylandPotomac, MD$65,000332023
Student Aces IncPalm Beach Gardens, FL$62,000222022
Chasin' a Dream FoundationJupiter, FL$50,000332024
Sky's the Limit FundMilpitas, CA$42,296442024
Judeo Christian Health ClinicTampa, FL$40,000442024
National Pediatric Cancer FoundationTampa, FL$38,750442024
Children's National Hospital FoundationWashington, DC$32,250112021
Maret SchoolWashington, DC$30,750222024
Furman UniversityGreenville, SC$29,375112024
Dunn SchoolLos Olivos, CA$15,000112024
Sheridan SchoolWashington, DC$15,000112024
Foundation for PeaceKing of Prussia, PA$7,500222023
Magic City Acceptance CenterBirmingham, AL$2,500112022

13 of 18 (72%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 85%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 32 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
11 grants
Health Care
8 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
International Affairs
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$258,000$24,500
202213$311,638$25,000
202312$282,500$21,250
202413$242,500$15,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

50% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Florida
$544K
Virginia
$206K
District of Columbia
$183K
Maryland
$65K
California
$57K
South Carolina
$29K
Pennsylvania
$8K
Alabama
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsRaymond James Charitable Endowment Fund8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $20,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from David & Leighan Rinker Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 310 Okeechobee Blvd 100, West Palm Beach, FL, 33401. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 65-0454037 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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