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Albert J and Susan E Rot Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0155% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$169kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kFood & Nutrition$130kHealth$79kReligion$70kEnvironment$65kAnimals$43kEducation$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$116k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 92% of reported assets are held in Rbc.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,650
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND$7,500
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$7,500
K9S FOR WARRIORS$7,500
PBS FOUNDATION$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
ALL FOR LUNCH$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,754
Individual grant recipient$3,754
Individual grant recipient$3,754
Individual grant recipient$3,754
WTTW$2,500
CAMP FIESTA INC$2,500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%CAMP FIESTA INC: $3k → 13%MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES: $10k → 7%MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES: $10k → 7%MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES: $10k → 7%MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES: $10k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 7%MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES: $10k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 7%MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
IL
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 35 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
11

Total granted

$1.2M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

34%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • MS
    MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +28%
  • K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +85%
  • TM
    THE MORTON ARBORETUM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SF
    SELAH FREEDOM INC
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -1%
  • DP
    DUPAGE PADS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • DP
    DISABLED PATRIOT FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -34%

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
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

3
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
4
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
5
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
6
Secure Families Foundation

Our mission is to educate and engage military partners, family members, and concerned citizens on matters of foreign policy and national security as they impact the military community.

International
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
About Face Veterans Against the War

We work to build a service-member and veteran led movement that ends militarism by transforming ourselves, military culture and american society.

Public Benefit
9
Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Inc

To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents, and survivors.

Human Services
10
Troops First Foundation Incorporated

To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…

Public Benefit
11
Wounded Veterans Relief Fund Inc

Wounded veterans relief fund (wvrf), founded in 2009, is a veteran-led 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. our mission is to provide urgent financial assistance and critical dental care to florida's eligible wounded and disabled veterans.…

Human Services
12
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionGovernment Accountability R…Homeless Services & ShelterChild and Family ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Food Pantries & AssistanceDevelopmental Disabilities …Land Conservation Organizat…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%8%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr22%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr22%37%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,331

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS — $140,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSTHE SALVATION ARMY — $70,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient — $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES — $70,000 · OtherWAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient — $66,115 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $63,680 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $56,499 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $33,259 · Other+28 more — $423,697 · Other+28 moreMORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesMORNING STA…SELAH FREEDOM INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesSELAH FREED…LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FI…Father Flanagan's Boys' Home — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $70,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $17,500 · HealthK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $42,500 · AnimalsTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $35,000 · EnvironmentWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $22,500 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $17,500 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyAll for Lunch Inc — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$993,250Human Services$137,500Health$87,500Animals$42,500Environment$35,000Arts & Culture$27,500Philanthropy$27,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $75,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $42,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSELAH FREEDOM INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTART EARLY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED PATRIOT FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetDONKA INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll for Lunch Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIESTA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Simple Good — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
  • Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM
  • Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC
  • Who funds START EARLY
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds DISABLED PATRIOT FUND INC
  • Who funds DONKA INCORPORATED

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.

George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Albert J and Susan E Rot 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 53%
  • Selah Freedom Inc53% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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