How much did Ro Family Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of Ro Family Foundation’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.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

health

2023

health

2024

landhealth

2025

landhockeyhealth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $106k
$10k–50k8 grants · $110k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

Green Mountain Horse Association$25,000
Cooley Dickinson Hospital$15,000
Bay State Health$15,000
Abortion Rights Fund of Western MA$15,000
Safe Passage Inc$10,000
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts$10,000
Treehouse Foundation$10,000
Child Advocacy Center of Hampshire County$10,000
Tapestry Health Systems$8,000
Community Action Pioneer Valley$7,500
Northampton Neighbors$7,500
Behavioral Health Network Inc$6,000
Servicenet$5,000
Williston Northampton School - DEI$5,000
Child Advocacy Center of Franklin County$5,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$758k · 32 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$758k

$13k

Still filing today

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEmploymentEducationOther

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

SP
Safe Passage Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +34%
TF
Treehouse Foundation
6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +202%
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +82%

Funded once

CY
Community YMCA of Greenfield
one grant, 2024 · $5k
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NEPM
one grant, 2024 · $5k
TH
The Hampshire County YMC
one grant, 2021 · $3k

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.

Northeast Behavioral Health Corporation

The mission of northeast behavioral health corporation d/b/a beth israel lahey health behavioral services' (bilhbs) is to provide personal, compassionate, state-of-the-art, integrated behavioral healthcare that makes a difference in the…

Health

New England Business Associates Inc

Support employment for disabled individuals.

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Northern Berkshire Community Coalition

Improvement in quality of life in northern berkshire county

Community Improvement

Northeast Kingdom Organizing

Coalition that has come together to organize and advocate for justice for the people and places of vermonts northeast kingdom.

Community Improvement

Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health

Northwest Essex Community Healthcare Net

Northwest essex community heathcare network is designated as ccbhc in the state of new jersey. as a ccbhc, the organization provides the community with an all-inclusive range of substance use and mental health disorder services.

Health

Peterborough Retirement Community At

To provide excellent housing and health care services to its residents.

Human Services

Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit whose mission is to provide community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling…

Health

Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging Inc

We support people age 60 and older persons with disabilities in their efforts to remain active healthy, financially secure, and in control of their own lives. The Agency connects people and the services they they need to live independently…

Human Services

New Hampshire Public Radio Inc

Nhpr is the state's only statewide radio news service. nhpr produces balanced, in-depth news and information in an effort to create a more informed public, one challenged and enriched by a deeper understanding and appreciation of state,…

Arts & Culture

Northeast Human Resources Association

To lead, advance and influence the management of human resources and its impact on organizational success.

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North Country Center for the Arts Inc

A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northampton Survival Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Action Pioneer Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

330/3,702

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/23

Grantees still filing

19/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$516,500Human Services$139,000Health$41,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Arts & Culture$34,000Employment$23,500Education$12,000Environment$5,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of WesternMA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western · The Beveridge Family Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Zoe Foundation · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable · Health New England Inc · The Food Bank of Western · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & · Select Equity Group Foundation · Arbella Insurance 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 organisation Ro Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: Jam Cycling Fund.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 455638408 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 Jam Cycling Fund, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ro Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ro Family Foundation 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.

Ro Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ro Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Ro Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ro Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph