· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BEST BUDDIES | $12,000 |
| FRASER | $12,000 |
| PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 8% of Roles Family 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 +35% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +83%
- SDST DAVID'S CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +35%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- FFFoundation for Children in Needgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +54%
- 22HARVESTORGone grant, 2020 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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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.
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
The national fragile x foundation serves the entire fragile x community to live their best lives by providing the knowledge, resources, and tools until, and even after, more effective treatments and a cure are achieved.
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Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.
Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 52 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 FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds African Children Today Inc ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRASER ↗
- Who funds WISHES & MORE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIEGEL RARE NEUROIMMUNE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds TAYA AND CHRIS KYLE FOUNDATION SERVICE FAMILY STRONG ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Children in Need ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HUNT OF A LIFETIME ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH NEUROIMMUNE DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ONEOC ↗
- Who funds PANDAS NETWORKORG ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roles Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roles Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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