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Jack and Penny Rohrbach Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$173k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$211kHuman Services$205kPhilanthropy$140kHousing & Shelter$107kReligion$86kRecreation & Sports$82kHealth$64kYouth Development$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
$3,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$907k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN UNIVERSITY$20,000
MOTHERS TRUST$10,000
ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE$10,000
ROBIN HOOD$10,000
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$10,000
SEVERAL SOURCES SHELTER$5,500
RAMSEY RESPONDS$5,500
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL$5,000
COVENENT HOUSE OF NJ$5,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ$5,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$5,000
FIRST CONGREGATION CHURCH OF MANCHE$5,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE$5,000
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF VERO BEACH$5,000
CROSSOVER MISSION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%RAMSEY RESPONDS: $6k → 7%RAMSEY RESPONDS: $6k → 7%RAMSEY RESPONDS: $5k → 7%RAMSEY RESPONDS: $5k → 7%RAMSEY RESPONDS: $4k → 7%RAMSEY RESPONDS: $2k → 7%RAMSEY RESPONDS: $2k → 7%PEACE HOUSE: $2k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $2k → 5%HOMELESS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%PEACE HOUSE: $2k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $2k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $2k → 5%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $8k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $8k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $8k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $8k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $4k → 8%PEACE HOUSE: $1k → 5%MOTHERS TRUST: $10k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST: $10k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST: $10k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST: $8k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST: $8k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST: $8k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST: $8k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST: $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$884k · 57 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +70% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
15

Total granted

$884k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+70%

Still filing today

42%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +49%
  • MT
    Mothers Trust Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +174%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • CC
    Colby-Sawyer College
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -18%
  • MT
    MOONRISE THERAPEUTICSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +138%
  • BB
    BURR & BURTON SEMINARYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +73%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
2
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
3
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
5
Land Bank Twin Cities Inc

Land bank twin cities, inc. captures strategic real estate opportunities to benefit people with low to moderate incomes, prioritizing people of color and populations facing barriers.

Housing & Shelter
6
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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7
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
8
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
9
Residential Opportunities Inc

We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.

Human Services
10
Crisis Intervention Services Dba Sierra Community House

We connect and empower our community through family strengthening, crisis intervention, hunger relief, and legal services.

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11
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
12
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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lake County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. 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

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COVENENT HOUSE OF NJ: $30,000 · OtherCOVENENT HOUSE OF NJBEACON PLACE: $26,000 · OtherBEACON PLACECOMMUNITY CHURCH OF VERO BEACH: $25,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AME: $20,500 · OtherLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherCROSSOVER MISSION INC: $25,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $25,000 · OtherImpacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet: $19,500 · Other+48 more: $287,524 · Other+48 moreThe Roberti Community House: $66,000 · Human ServicesThe Roberti Commun…Mothers Trust Foundation: $66,000 · Human ServicesMothers Trust Foun…RAMSEY RESPONDS INC: $29,000 · Human ServicesRAMSEY RESPONDS IN…Peace House Inc: $11,000 · Human ServicesPeace House Inc+2 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $78,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUN…UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $28,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF I…THE MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MARDY FISH …RAMSEY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,500 · PhilanthropyRAMSEY PUBLIC E…+2 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyBROWN UNIVERSITY: $130,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERS…NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $63,000 · Recreation & SportsCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $27,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $26,000 · Food & NutritionColby-Sawyer College: $30,000 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationBURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $4,000 · Education
Other$478,524Human Services$175,000Philanthropy$144,000Community Improvement$130,000Recreation & Sports$63,000Food & Nutrition$53,000Education$44,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $78,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Roberti Community House: $66,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $66,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $63,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAMSEY RESPONDS INC: $29,000 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSOVER MISSION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetImpacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet: $19,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPAWS FOR PATRICK: $11,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPeace House Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOONRISE THERAPEUTICS: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAMSEY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake Forest Police Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetKYLECARES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Wireless of Park City: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Roberti Community House ↗
  • Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
  • Who funds RAMSEY RESPONDS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Impacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet ↗
  • Who funds SEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PATRICK ↗
  • Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
  • Who funds Summit Land Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MOONRISE THERAPEUTICS ↗
  • Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds RAMSEY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Chicago Community TrustIL16.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Buchanan Family Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Sad Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jack and Penny Rohrbach Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack and Penny Rohrbach Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Burr & Burton Seminary: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Jack and Penny Rohrbach Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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