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Rolly Michaux Foundation Inc at a glance

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Rolly Michaux Foundation Inc

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.

$213k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$158kCivil Rights$50kPhilanthropy$45kYouth Development$28kCommunity Improvement$13kHealth$10kAnimals$5kReligion$5k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $170k
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$40,000
NUNZIATA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC$40,000
THE PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION$25,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY$25,000
BOSTON FOUNDATION INC$10,000
SUMMER OF SASS INC$10,000
TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION$10,000
TWENTY SUMMERS$10,000
TRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTER$7,500
THE FINE ARTS WORK CENTER$7,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$5,000
TRANSHEALTH$5,000
BAGLY INC$5,000
CONGREGATION SHERITH ISRAEL$5,000
ARTS COUNCIL OF TAMWORTH$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
CA
TN
NC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 5 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$92k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+1%

Still filing today

80%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k
  • 20 Summers Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +28%
  • TL
    TRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • AA
    ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +380%
  • FC
    FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +1%
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Guild of Boston Artists Inc
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2
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
Profile Theatre Project

Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…

Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Film Society

The philadelphia film society (pfs) is the region's home for classic and contemporary film presentation, education, entertainment, and community building. a nonprofit, community-supported organization, pfs produces the acclaimed…

Arts & Culture
5
The Theatre At Boston Court

Boston court creates and nurtures innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity.

Arts & Culture
6
The Princeton Festival a Nj Non-Profit Corporation

To enrich the communities we serve through a multi-dimensional, world-class performing arts summer festival. We create programs that excite, inform, inspire, and invite discovery and engagement as we aspire to become a nationally…

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7
Block Island Film Festival
Arts & Culture
8
Atlantic Arts Foundation
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9
Provenance Institute for the Arts Culture and Environment
Arts & Culture
10
The Provincetown Theater Foundation Inc

To operate a theatre in provincetown mass.

Philanthropy
11
Public Art Fund Inc

As the leader in its field, public art fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in new york city and beyond by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences…

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12
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Provincetown Commons Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Titans Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNUNZIATA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $40,000 · OtherNUNZIATA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCARTS COUNCIL OF TAMWORTH: $5,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHERITH ISRAEL: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherBAGLY INC: $5,000 · OtherPROVINCETOWN COMMONS INC: $7,500 · OtherPROVINCETOWN COMMONS INCOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $5,000 · OtherTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT: $5,000 · OtherASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $25,000 · Arts & CultureASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL20 Summers Inc: $15,000 · Arts & Culture20 Summers IncFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVI…MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSBay State Performing Arts Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBay State Performing Arts IncAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLESCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION A…Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePalm Springs Plaza Theatre Fou…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNEO Philanthropy Inc: $25,000 · Public BenefitNEO Phila…PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPLAZA THE…TRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTER: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentSUMMER OF SASS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoston Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthTRANSHEALTH INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$127,500Arts & Culture$83,000Public Benefit$25,000Human Services$25,000Youth Development$22,500Philanthropy$20,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget20 Summers Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROVINCETOWN COMMONS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay State Performing Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAGLY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Brian D Stevens F…The Palette Fund IncGramercy Park Foundat…ImpactassetsincTreved Foundation IncBoston Foundation IncThe Murray Reese Foun…Tern FoundationEdward Bangs Kelley a…Cape Cod Foundation I…GiveClear FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…
The Brian D Stevens FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brian D Stevens Foundation · The Palette Fund Inc · Gramercy Park Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Treved Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Murray Reese Foundation · Tern Foundation · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · GiveClear Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rolly Michaux Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rolly Michaux Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Bagly Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Provincetown Film Societyinc: 6% of income from government
  • 20 Summers Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bay State Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Provincetown Commons Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Transhealth Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Rolly Michaux Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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