· Private foundation
Roost 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 $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY | $50,000 |
| ST JOHN'S CEMETARY ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITY POINT HEALTH ST LUKES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–23, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSIOUXLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $33k · revenue +41%
- TCTHE CRITTENTON CENTER2× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +131%
- OUOPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED2× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTAone grant, 2017 · $15k
- NSNORTH SOUND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -78%
- MRMISSOURI RIVER BOAT CLUBone grant, 2022 · $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.
To act as the local governing board of sioux city housing trust fund by collecting and disbursing revenue for the purpose of encouraging the development and redevelopment of affordable housing for sioux city's income qualified residents.
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
Cemetery care and maintenance
To provide affordable housing for low-income families
The foundation provides support for community health. it helps eliminate barriers and improves the health of the community.
Ecumenical not-for-profit transitional living facility for the homeless in sioux falls, south dakota. purpose is to offer hospitality, fellowship and support to those who have nowhere to sleep.
Operation of a radio station to service as a ministry
Christian education grade school
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
To enrich the quality of life and support independence and vitality for our members. this is done by meeting the social, recreational and educational needs of members, in an environment that is fun, safe, inclusive and courteous for all
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 SIOUXLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE CRITTENTON CENTER ↗
- Who funds St John's Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds NORTH SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SIOUX CITY IOWA ↗
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: Waitt Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Missouri River Historical Development Inc · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · The Chesterman Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roost Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roost Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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