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Roche Foundation Inc at a glance

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Roche 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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2018
13
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

97% of Roche Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to King Baudouin Foundation Us Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Roche Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’18
0
’19
10
’20
0
’21
1
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$30MArts & Culture$6.7MHealth$1.2MPhilanthropy$750kCommunity Improvement$400kSocial Science$327kHuman Services$63kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0
02FY2018 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $307k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$325M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY$2,000,000
Individual grant recipient$750,000
RICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION$200,000
French InstituteAlliance Francaise$106,624
MASS MOCA$25,000
BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY$25,000
HARLEM STAGEAARON DAVIS HALL$10,000
FRAME$10,000
RICK AND ESTELLE KING ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS$7,500
MARTIN HOUSE RESTORATION CORP$1,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$1,000
ART SCHOOL OF BERKSHIRES$1,000
TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MASS MOCA: $25k → 12%RICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION: $200k → 13%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $1k → 17%FRAME: $10k → 22%RICK AND ESTELLE KING ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS: $8k → 12%ART SCHOOL OF BERKSHIRES: $1k → 12%BUFFALO PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $750k → 13%French InstituteAlliance Francaise: $107k → 17%MARTIN HOUSE RESTORATION CORP: $1k → 13%SEE ATTACHMENT: $15.6M → 17%ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY: $2.0M → 13%SEE ATTACHMENT: $12.7M → 17%BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $25k → 13%SEE ATTACHMENT: $7.9M → 17%SEE ATTACHMENT: $3.6M → 17%TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK: $500 → 17%HARLEM STAGEAARON DAVIS HALL: $10k → 17%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 3 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
19

Total granted

$7.0M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’22
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BF
    BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY
    3× · 2018–2022 · $5.5M · revenue +24%
  • MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
  • RICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $400k · revenue +71% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $750k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FUNDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
5
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
8
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MYRIAD USA INC: $30,465,117 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $5,550,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE AR…+2 more: $107,624 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $1,025,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,000,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $750,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUNDS INC: $500,000 · OtherFrench Institute Alliance: $327,130 · OtherNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $125,000 · OtherGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $62,500 · Other+8 more: $85,500 · OtherRICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION: $400,000 · Community ImprovementROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $175,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
International$30,465,117Arts & Culture$5,657,624Education$2,025,000Other$1,850,130Community Improvement$400,000Philanthropy$250,000Health$100,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $30,465,117 over 2y, 22% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $5,550,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $1,025,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION: $400,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: $106,624 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Roche Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Roche 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 24 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $16M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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