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Ronald L & Cinda S Roudebush Foundatio at a glance

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Ronald L & Cinda S Roudebush Foundatio

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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$6kHuman Services$4kHealth$952Religion$500Education$300Arts & Culture$250Environment$200Public Safety & Disaster$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400
Median grant
4
States reached
$52k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI$500
WESTIE RESCUE SOUTHEAST$400
THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$300
DATAW ISLAND FELINE FOUNDATION (DIFF)$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CIRCLE TAIL INC: $300 → 6%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

NY
IN
OH
CO
VA
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15k · 7 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$15k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
+47%

Still filing today

43%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthCrime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +70%
  • TW
    THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +124%
  • ON
    Owl's Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife Inc
    2× · 2019–2024 · $800 · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • AC
    AROMA COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • CT
    CIRCLE TAIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300 · revenue +80%
  • DH
    DATAW HISTORIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue -28%
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
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
2
Mountain Tails Wildlife Rehab

Wildlife rehabitation

Animals
3
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
4
Raskels Rescue
Animals
5
Where the Wild Things Are Rescue in

The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.

Animals
6
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
7
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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8
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
9
Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals
10
Feathers Foundation Inc
Animals
11
Pet's Miracle Network Inc
Animals
12
K9 Conservationists

K9 Conservationists mission is to advance wildlife research and habitat protection by pairing highly trained detection dog teams with scientists. We also provide educational materials and build inclusive collaborative communities.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $4,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATIWESTIE RESCUE SOUTHEAST: $2,900 · OtherWESTIE RESCUE SOUTHEASTAMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND OF OHIO: $552 · OtherAROMA COMMUNITY CHURCH: $500 · Other+3 more: $500 · OtherTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,900 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SA…Owl's Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife Inc: $800 · AnimalsOwl's Nest Sanctua…RICO PET RECOVERY: $100 · AnimalsBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $300 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $100 · HealthCIRCLE TAIL INC: $300 · Human ServicesDATAW HISTORIC FOUNDATION INC: $250 · Arts & CultureDataw Island Conservancy Inc: $200 · EnvironmentHEROES Inc: $100 · Crime & LegalSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100 · Education
Other$12,752Animals$2,800Health$400Human Services$300Arts & Culture$250Environment$200Crime & Legal$100Education$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $4,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOwl's Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCIRCLE TAIL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDATAW HISTORIC FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEROES Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICO PET RECOVERY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds Owl's Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife Inc ↗
  • Who funds CIRCLE TAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds DATAW HISTORIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Dataw Island Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEROES Inc ↗
  • Who funds RICO PET RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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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 Ronald L & Cinda S Roudebush Foundatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald L & Cinda S Roudebush Foundatio. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 18 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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