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Roan Universal Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Roan Universal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Recreation & SportsReligionHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$10k100%
FY20204$8k25%
FY20199$42k67%
FY20186$28k50%
FY20178$55kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$43kHealth$36kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$7kInternational$7kReligion$4kYouth Development$3kHousing & Shelter$300Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Services for Older Citizens Inc Dba the Helm at the Boll Life Center$20,00012%
Henry Ford Health St John Foundation$9,70020%
The International Foundation$7,00022%
The Detroit Institute of Arts$3,10020%
Racquet Up Detroit$2,50010%
New Canaan Society Inc$1,50010%
Cure Multiple Myeloma Corporation$1,00011%
Salvation Army$9003n/a
Grosse Pointe Farms Foundation$10010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roan Universal Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetServices for Older Citizens Inc Dba the Helm at the Boll Life Center: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHenry Ford Health St John Foundation: $9,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe International Foundation: $7,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Detroit Institute of Arts: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRacquet Up Detroit: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Canaan Society Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCure Multiple Myeloma Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGrosse Pointe Farms Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Roan Universal Foundation

How much does Roan Universal Foundation give?
Roan Universal Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Roan Universal Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (30%), Health (25%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Roan Universal Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Services for Older Citizens Inc Dba the Helm at the Boll Life Center ($20k), Henry Ford Health St John Foundation ($10k), The International Foundation ($7k).
Does Roan Universal Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Roan Universal 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Roan Universal Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Roan Universal Foundation based?
Roan Universal Foundation is based in MI.

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 19 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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