How much did ROLES FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

International$351kHuman Services$189kEducation$148kYouth Development$143kArts & Culture$128kHealth$120kPhilanthropy$84kAnimals$6kCrime & Legal$5kOther$769k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

cancer

2021

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2022

tree

2023

hope

2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $17k
$10k–50k16 grants · $265k
$50k–250k1 grant · $85k

$14,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

HOSANNA CHURCH$85,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$30,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$28,000
ST DAVID'S CENTER$26,000
MN WISHES AND MORE$19,000
LIFEWORKS$16,000
HOPEKIDS$15,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$15,000
MCKENNA CLAIRE FOUNDATION$15,000
AFRICAN CHILDREN TODAY$14,860
HOUSING FIRST MN FOUNDATION$14,000
OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (OUR)$14,000
FRASER$12,000
PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION$12,000
BEST BUDDIES$12,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 26 repeat orgs$318k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 11 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

$1.6M

$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+47%

Still filing today

46%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalHealthAnimalsEducationOther

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

FM
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +68%
SD
ST DAVID'S CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +35%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +17%

Funded once

FF
FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN IN NEED
one grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue -6%
PS
PINKEY SWEAR FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $15k
TM
TRANSVERSE MYELITIS KIDS
one grant, 2017 · $12k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health

Children's Tumor Foundation

The children's tumor foundation is dedicated to ending neurofibromatosis (nf). our mission is to: a.) fund research, b.) increase public awareness, c.) support patients and families, d.) encourage establishment of nf clinics.

Health

Childrens Cancer Therapy

To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.

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Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch funds & supports children's cancer research & provides education & resources to all those affected by children's cancer.

Health

Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion

Make-a-Wish Foundation International

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Human Services

Children's Miracle Network

Children's miracle network (dba "children's miracle network hospitals") works to save kids' lives by bringing people together to raise money for children's healthcare in local communities.

Unclassified

Wishing Star Foundation

Wishing star foundation's mission is to provide hope and lasting memories for children who are terminal or battling a life-threatening illness.

Unclassified

Foundation for Children With Neuroimmune

Earned guidestar's platinum seal of transparency, an honor held by fewer than 1% of nonprofits, for the past six years. neuroimmune foundation is also the only pans-focused nonprofit to receive charity navigator's highest rating, 4/4 stars…

Health

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Children of the Nations

To provide holistic, christ-centered care for orphaned and destitute children, enabling them to create positive and lasting change in their nations.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Convoy of Hope. 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 22 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/28

the rest of the field

3,300/38,961

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/26

Grantees still filing

20/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$863,428International$350,909Human Services$188,500Education$147,640Youth Development$143,000Arts & Culture$127,500Health$120,000

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.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL14.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation ROLES FAMILY 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AFRICAN CHILDREN TODAY INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue held over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 263929532 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AFRICAN CHILDREN TODAY INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Roles Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Roles Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROLES FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Roles Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ROLES FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Roles Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph