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Rolmar Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$147k
Granted FY2021
31
Grants FY2021
13
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Health$73kEnvironment$20kPhilanthropy$15kHousing & Shelter$15kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$10kCrime & Legal$8kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2021 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k29 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NY TIMES NEEDIEST CASES FUND$15,000
BEYOND HOUSING$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$7,500
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA FOUNDATION$5,000
SAINT LOUIS AREA FOODBANK$5,000
BRIGHT FOCUS FOUNDATION$5,000
PEDAL THE CAUSE$5,000
UNITED WORLD SCHOOLS$5,000
STRONG MINDS$5,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$5,000
PROVIDENT BEHAVORIAL HEALTH$5,000
MISSOURI CASA ASSOCIATION$5,000
ARTHUR R JOHNSON COMMUNITY OUTREACH$5,000
PREVENT CANCER FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CARITAS FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $3k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%ARTHUR R JOHNSON COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $5k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
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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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

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Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
8
Toxic-Free Future F/K/a Washington Toxics Coalition

As a national leader in environmental health research and advocacy, toxic- free future uses the power of science, education, and activism, to drive strong laws and corporate responsibility that protect the health of all people and the…

Environment
9
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
10
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
11
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
12
The Alliance for Just Deliberation On Solar Geoengineering Inc

The alliance for just deliberation on solar geoengineering (dsg) is a charitable, scientific and educational organization dedicated to building just and inclusive deliberation about research and potential use of solar geoengineering. solar…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Patrick Center and the most unlike its peers is Missouri Court Appointed Special Advocate Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Native Hawaiian Community D…Cancer Support OrganizationsAffordable Housing Developm…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Land Conservation Organizat…Pregnancy Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceAnimal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,540

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.

04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION — $24,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $7,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WORLD SCHOOLS — $5,000 · OtherUNITED WORLD SCHOOLSPROVIDENT BEHAVORIAL HEALTH — $5,000 · OtherPROVIDENT BEHAVORIAL HEALTHST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 · OtherST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INCREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY — $3,750 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $3,750 · OtherST PATRICK CENTER — $3,000 · OtherSTRONGMINDS INC — $5,000 · OtherSTRONGMINDS INCREEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $3,750 · OtherDogs For Our Brave Inc — $3,000 · OtherGIRLS ON THE RUN OF ST LOUIS — $3,000 · Other+1 more — $2,500 · OtherPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn — $5,000 · HealthPrevent Cancer Fou…BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDA…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEAS…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,750 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S…DETROITERS WORKING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $3,750 · HealthDETROITERS WORKING…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $3,750 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERA…INTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS — $1,500 · HealthINTERFAITH RESIDEN…THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW Y…PEDAL THE CAUSE — $5,000 · Human ServicesPEDAL THE…Arthur R Johnson Community Outreach Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesArthur R …CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS — $2,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,515 · Human ServicesAmerican …COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT — $5,000 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH — $3,750 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $3,750 · EnvironmentBEYOND HOUSING INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMISSOURI COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$86,750Health$27,750Philanthropy$15,000Human Services$14,015Environment$12,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRONGMINDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArthur R Johnson Community Outreach Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH — $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROITERS WORKING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $3,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $3,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDogs For Our Brave Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF ST LOUIS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Employees Community F…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organization Rolmar Charitable 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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: 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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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