Minnesota · Private foundation
Roles Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $366k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Roles Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $336k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $233k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $228k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $235k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $190k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $157k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $139k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $136k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $188,000 | 9 | 0% |
| African Children Today Inc | $147,640 | 9 | 5% |
| St David's Center | $143,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $127,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Hopekids Inc | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fraser | $87,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wishes & More | $85,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Hosanna Church | $85,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | $71,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($324k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roles Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Minneapolis Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · AbbVie Foundation
How this is measured
About Roles Family Foundation
- How much does Roles Family Foundation give?
- Roles Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $366,360 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Roles Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Food & Nutrition (18%), International (12%).
- Who are Roles Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Feed My Starving Children Inc ($188k), African Children Today Inc ($148k), St David's Center ($143k).
- Does Roles Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roles Family 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 Roles Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, United Way Worldwide.
- Where is Roles Family Foundation based?
- Roles Family Foundation is based in MN.
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