· Private foundation
Rohlen Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ART INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| COMM FOR TEMP SHELTER | $1,000 |
| CERF | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LOL LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| NORTHERN WATERS MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| LOLA | $1,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $1,000 |
| ASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| KICK CANCER | $1,000 |
| OCONOMOWOC FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| SISKIYOU COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $850 |
| SISKIYOU FOOD ASSISTANCE | $750 |
| VERMONT FOOD BANK | $750 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD BANK | $750 |
| SISKIYOU LAND TRUST | $750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Rohlen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KMKICKcancER Movement5× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +8%
- AEASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK6× · 2017–2023 · $9k · revenue +260%
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC6× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- SMSHASTA MOUNTAIN LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- COCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +27%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ashland Food Project and Talent Food Project conduct bimonthly food drives in their respective towns, to keep their local food bank/pantry consistently stocked throughout the year. This is an all-volunteer operation, utilizing an organized…
To end the injustice of hunger for everyone and prioritize the people most affected by hunger to make a permanent systemic change.
Lake county food share inc is an organization whose purpose is to coordinate and to meet both supplemental and emergency food needs of families and individuals in lake county, oregon.
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The mission of the wisconsin woodland owners association is to conserve and enhance the private woodlands of the state through the following actions: sustainably manage our woodlands with informed management plans that utilize best…
He fondy food center connects greater milwaukee to local, fresh food- from farm to market to table - so that children learn better, adults live healthier, and communities celebrate cultural food traditions.
Our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger by empowering our community. we respond to the root causes of hunger and supports our community by striving to nourish, restore dignity, provide health and champion…
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
Our vision is a hunger-free wisconsin and our mission is to help our food banks and partners fight hunger, improve health and strengthen local communities so that everybody in wisconsin has access to the food and benefits they need to…
Second harvest foodbank exists to end hunger in southwestern wisconsin.
To alleviate hunger in lincoln county by soliciting, collecting, and distributing food through a network of agencies. to provide temporary services to individuals and families in time of need. to assist clients to become more…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Foodbank and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds KICKcancER Movement ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ACCESS ↗
- Who funds THE SISKIYOU LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER LTD ↗
- Who funds Siskiyou Food Assistance Corporation ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Siskiyou Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MASLOW PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Rohlen 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.
- Access — 65% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Maslow Project — 22% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
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 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.