How much does Ro Family Foundation give?

Ro Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $215,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Ro Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Health (21%), Food & Nutrition (10%).

Who are Ro Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Safe Passage Inc ($60k), Baystate Health Inc ($60k), The Treehouse Foundation Inc ($52k).

Does Ro Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ro Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Ro Family Foundation based?

Ro Family Foundation is based in MA.

Ro Family Foundation

Ro Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ro Family Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Ro Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Beveridge Family Foundation, Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$216k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$222kHealth$171kFood & Nutrition$78kCommunity Improvement$61kCivil Rights$53kCrime & Legal$49kArts & Culture$46kRecreation & Sports$42kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

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

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Green Mountain Horse Association	$25,000
Abortion Rights Fund of Western MA	$15,000
Bay State Health	$15,000
Cooley Dickinson Hospital	$15,000
Child Advocacy Center of Hampshire County	$10,000
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts	$10,000
Safe Passage Inc	$10,000
Treehouse Foundation	$10,000
Tapestry Health Systems	$8,000
Community Action Pioneer Valley	$7,500
Northampton Neighbors	$7,500
Behavioral Health Network Inc	$6,000
Diffvelopment	$5,000
CISA	$5,000
The Hampshire County YMCA	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

$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

66%

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 & SportsEducationEmploymentOther

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

SP
SAFE PASSAGE INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +10%
TT
THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +160%
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +29%

Funded once

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

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.

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

North End Community Health Committee

To operate a community health center providing a full range of health care services including medical, dental, vision, mental health and elder services to residents of the north end, charlestown and west end of boston, massachusetts.

Health

Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc

Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.

Health

Northeast Human Resources Association Inc

The mission of the northeast human resources association is to lead, advance and influence the management of human resources and its impact on organizational success.

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Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter

Northeast Business Group On Health Inc

Empowering our members to drive excellence and achieve the highest value in healthcare delivery and the consumer experience.

—

North Shore Elder Services Inc

The mission of north shorb elder services is to serve the functional needs of older adults residing on the north shore of massachusetts and provide support, information, and service to them and their families.

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Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education

Dartmouth Health Home Care Inc

We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

—

Health Equity Partnership of North Central Mass Inc

To bring together and support diverse voices to promote health equity in the 27 cities and towns of north central massachusetts.

Community Improvement

North Adams Regional Hospital

The mission of north adams regional hospital is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, & personalized environment.

Health

Northampton Community Television Inc

To serve as a model community access organization providing programming and educational opportunities to the community through all means technologically available.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northampton Survival Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tapestry Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/27

Grantees still filing

19/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$421,500Human Services$139,000Health$101,000Education$52,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Arts & Culture$34,000Employment$23,500

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

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA43.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · The Zoe Foundation · Lennox Foundation · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · Health New England Inc · Hurdle Hill Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts 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 Ro Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ro Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

6rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

05Through Plinth

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home