Preik Family Foundation Inc.

Preik Family Foundation Inc. is a small, family-run private foundation with no professional program staff — every trustee (Reinhold Preik, President; Jennifer Preik, Vice President; Curtis Preik; Austin Preik; Erin Lee) serves uncompensated, and the only paid role is Diana Huynen, Secretary/Treasurer (roughly $11,850-$18,190 across recent filings, $17,000 in FY2024), who almost certainly handles administration rather than program review. Critically, the foundation's own Form 990-PF checkbox states it 'only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and doesn't accept unsolicited applications for funds' — a posture confirmed independently by third-party aggregators (Grantmakers.io, GrantExec, CauseIQ). Granted's own record shows a narrower opening: `accepting_applications: true` alongside specific instructions ('Complete financial budget') and restrictions ('Christian educational spiritual and physical assistance to children'), suggesting the family will occasionally entertain a direct request that fits tightly within its established giving pattern, but this is not a competitive, publicly-advertised grant program. First-time applicants should not expect an LOI-to-full-proposal funnel, a site visit process, or a published cycle — there is none in the data. Instead, the realistic path is relationship-driven: identify an existing grantee or a personal connection to the Preik family as an introduction. The grantee list shows strong loyalty — Wears Valley Ranch, Journey Church of Nassau County, Nassau Habitat for Humanity, the Trust for a Christian Ministry in the National Parks, Sigi & David Oblander Ministries, Samaritan's Purse International Relief, Amelia Plantation Chapel, and Jerry & Jana Lackey Ministries each appear across at least three separate grant cycles, while genuinely new entrants (Isaiah 117 House, Doctors Without Borders, Christian Health Service Corps) are rare single-grant exceptions. Organizations should favor small-to-midsize Christian ministries, international relief/medical missions, or children's housing and home-building programs, ideally with ties to Florida (especially the Nassau County/Fernandina Beach area), Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, Colorado, Michigan, or North Carolina — the seven states that account for all 30 tracked grants.

FY2024 (the most recent verified filing, via ProPublica) shows total assets of $9,865,000, total revenue of $839,604, and charitable disbursements of $652,500 (90.2% of $723,260 in total expenses). Granted's internal financials, current through FY2023, show grants paid of $510,000 (total giving $575,539) against assets of $9,748,655 and revenue of just $336,383 — meaning FY2024's revenue nearly tripled the prior year on stronger dividend and asset-sale income. Excluding a $4,041,800 outlier distribution in 2011 (likely a one-time transfer tied to the foundation's early years post its 2008 ruling date), annual grants paid have ranged narrowly: $447,000-$687,000 between 2019 and 2023. Across the tracked grant history (30 grants, $1,768,000 total, $136,000 average per recipient relationship), the documented per-grant range spans $5,000 (Christian Health Service Corps) to a cumulative $1,118,000 to Heal Africa Usa across three separate grants (general operating support, a hospital project, and Covid-relief oxygenators) — by far the foundation's largest sustained partnership. The typical_grant_size field further pins the median single grant at $60,000, with a per-grant range of $10,000-$559,000 and an average of $209,667. One notable single-grant outlier: Isaiah 117 House received $333,000 for a Duval County, FL children's home-building project. Geographically, of 30 tracked grants: Florida received 9 (30%), Tennessee and Texas 4 each, Colorado, Georgia, and Michigan 3 each, North Carolina 3, and New York 1 — a clear Southeast/Florida concentration tied to the Nassau County, FL grantee cluster (Journey Church of Nassau County, Nassau Habitat for Humanity). By purpose, Christian ministries and churches account for the largest share of grant count, international relief and medical missions (Samaritan's Purse, Heal Africa Usa, Doctors Without Borders, Christian Health Service Corps) roughly a fifth, and housing/home-building (Habitat for Humanity, Isaiah 117 House) and children's residential care (Wears Valley Ranch) the remainder — despite the foundation being NTEE-coded T22 (Philanthropy & Grantmaking) with a 'Community Development' focus tag, actual dollars skew heavily toward faith-based and humanitarian relief rather than economic development.

All five peers cluster within roughly $10,000 of Preik's $9,865,000 asset base — a near-exact match that reflects size-based peer selection rather than mission similarity, since none list a website or any disclosed application process in available data. That makes Preik, despite its own preselected-only stance, comparatively more transparent than this peer set: it is the only foundation of the six with a documented, multi-year grantee history and an identifiable geographic and mission pattern (Southeast/Florida, Christian ministry, international relief). Grant seekers targeting this asset tier of family foundations should expect most peers to be even harder to reach than Preik, reinforcing that a warm introduction strategy is the realistic path across this entire cohort, not just this one funder.

No 2025-2026 news coverage, press releases, or public announcements for Preik Family Foundation Inc. surfaced in web research — consistent with a low-profile, unstaffed family foundation with no communications function. Notably, the domain listed as the foundation's website in Granted's records (preik.org) does not belong to this organization: it currently resolves to unrelated New Age spiritual content ('P.R.E.I.S.™'), so any outreach or verification relying on that URL will misfire. The most recent verified financial activity is the FY2024 Form 990-PF (via ProPublica), showing $652,500 in charitable disbursements against $839,604 in revenue and $9,865,000 in total assets, up from $9,748,655 in FY2023. Leadership has been stable across the most recent filings: Reinhold Preik (President), Jennifer Preik (Vice President), Curtis Preik and Austin Preik (Trustees), Erin Lee (Trustee), and Diana Huynen (Secretary/Treasurer, the sole compensated role at roughly $17,000/year). Granted's own record shows the foundation was last verified 2026-06-20 and enrichment-tagged as AI/web-assisted (pf990_enriched_at 2026-02-21), with no override of the missing news signal — meaning the absence of coverage reflects a genuine lack of public activity rather than a research gap. Grant seekers should plan around a funder that gives quietly, year-round, without a public grant cycle, deadline calendar, or announcement rhythm, and should not expect to find any forthcoming RFP or program launch to react to.

Preik Family Foundation Inc. is explicit on its own tax filing that it 'only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and doesn't accept unsolicited applications for funds' — a cold, generic grant application addressed to the foundation is very unlikely to be read, let alone funded. That said, Granted's record shows a narrow, specific opening: application_instructions calls for a 'Complete financial budget,' and application_restrictions specifies 'Christian educational spiritual and physical assistance to children' — meaning that on the occasions the family does entertain a direct request, they expect an itemized, complete budget and a clear fit with Christian mission work benefiting children specifically. The strongest path in is a warm introduction: Wears Valley Ranch, Journey Church of Nassau County, Nassau Habitat for Humanity, Samaritan's Purse International Relief, and Amelia Plantation Chapel have each received grants across at least three separate filing years, indicating durable, personal relationships rather than one-off transactions — an introduction through any of these organizations, or through someone with a personal tie to the Preik family, is far more valuable than a written proposal alone. Geography matters: 9 of the 30 tracked grants (30%) went to Florida organizations, several clustered around Nassau County/Fernandina Beach, so a Southeast or Florida-based Christian ministry or relief organization starts with a materially better fit than an out-of-region applicant with no local connection. Use explicitly faith-based framing tied to the four proven categories — general operating support to a church or ministry, international relief/medical missions, home-building/housing assistance, or children's residential care — since no purely secular, academic, or arts-focused organization appears anywhere in the tracked grant history. Anchor any request to the documented range: median grant $60,000, with the bulk of individual awards between $10,000 and $170,000; only the rare multi-year humanitarian partnership (Heal Africa Usa's cumulative $1,118,000 across three grants, or Isaiah 117 House's one-time $333,000 home-building gift) has exceeded that band, so requests north of $200,000 should be reserved for a genuinely exceptional, relationship-backed case. With no disclosed deadline (application_deadline is null) or funding cycle, there is no calendar-driven window to target — cultivate the relationship at any time of year rather than waiting for an application period that does not appear to exist.