· Private foundation
Rohlen Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF LOL LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| NORTHERN WATERS MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| LOLA | $1,000 |
| KICK CANCER | $1,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| COMM FOR TEMP SHELTER | $1,000 |
| CERF | $1,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $1,000 |
| OCONOMOWOC FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| SISKIYOU COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $850 |
| SISKIYOU LAND TRUST | $750 |
| COMMUNITY FUNDATION OF THE NORTH ST | $750 |
| WATERSMEET FOOD PANTRY | $750 |
| MASLOW PROJECT | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Rohlen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +45% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CCCISCO CHAIN RIPARIAN OWNERS ASone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Siskiyou Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MASLOW PROJECT ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rohlen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rohlen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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