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Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$18,898
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Public BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$29k50%
FY20244$157k75%
FY20234$54k100%
FY20223$88k100%
FY20211$62kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$148kArts & Culture$84kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kPublic Benefit$45kRecreation & Sports$29kPhilanthropy$16kEducation$14k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
My Fathers House Community Service Inc$93,448311%
Miami County Historical Society Inc$81,5521n/a
VFW of the US Dept of Kansas$45,000148%
Paola Senior Center Inc$18,150112%
Midway Baseball and Softball Booster Club$15,00017%
All for Moms Foundation Inc$10,000112%
Prairie View Educational Foundation$5,0001n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($121k), not named here.

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About Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee

How much does Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee give?
Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee reported 3 grants totaling $32,273 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Arts & Culture (21%), Public Safety & Disaster (17%).
Who are Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: My Fathers House Community Service Inc ($93k), Miami County Historical Society Inc ($82k), VFW of the US Dept of Kansas ($45k).
Does Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee based?
Roman Foundation First Option Trust Dept Trustee is based in KS.

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 13 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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