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Root Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$884k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$822kPhilanthropy$775kEducation$324kHealth$202kHuman Services$172kYouth Development$85kEnvironment$65kRecreation & Sports$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES$500,000
OCEARCH$50,000
HEARTS FOR MOMS$50,000
JAE FOUNDATION$35,000
LA'AKEA FOUNDATION$32,500
UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIAFLAGLER$25,000
VIGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN$25,000
ROWDY RODEO$25,000
ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$20,000
HALIFAX HUMANE SOCIETY$12,000
CONKLIN DAVIS CENTER$10,000
FOXCROFT SCHOOL$10,000
PAWLICIOUS POOCHIE PET RESCUE$7,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$7,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 10%HEARTS FOR MOMS: $50k → 11%WHISPERING MEADOWS RANCH: $500 → 9%HEARTS FOR MOMS: $25k → 11%FOURISH FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%Daytona Dream Center: $500 → 12%DAYTONA DREAM CENTER: $500 → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF W VOLUSIA: $500 → 12%DAYTONA DREAM CENTER: $500 → 12%PREGNANCY CRISIS CENTER: $1k → 12%Pregnancy Crisis Center: $500 → 12%THE ARC OF VOLUSIA INC: $5k → 12%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

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ID
NY
OR
NV
IN
CA
UT
VA
DE
NC
HI
GA
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 35 repeat orgs$643k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
60

Total granted

$1.8M
$469k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+13%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $610k · revenue +192%
  • JF
    Jae Foundation Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $111k · revenue +80%
  • HF
    HEARTS FOR MOMS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +262%

Funded once

  • VH
    VIGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • SI
    SAILFUTURE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +13%
  • SO
    SAVE OUR SHORES
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -11%
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
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
2
Suncoast Center Inc

For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…

Health
3
Harbor House of Central Florida Inc

Harbor house strives to prevent and break the cycle of domestic abuse through empowerment-based programs, advocacy, education, and community involvement.

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4
Hubbard House Inc

Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
5
Safe Children Coalition Inc

The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.

Human Services
6
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
7
Ability Housing Inc

The mission of ability housing is to build flourishing communities where everyone has a home. its vision is a society where housing is a right, not a privilege; and all individuals have safe, affordable housing in vibrant communities. it…

Health
8
Hibiscus Children's Center Inc

To provide temporary shelter for abused and neglected children and support families at risk of abuse.

Housing & Shelter
9
Hope Services Hawaii Inc

Hope services hawaii provides housing-focused interventions to end homelessness through a continuum of services, including homeless prevention and diversion, mobile outreach, medical respite, street medicine, in- shelter medical attention,…

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10
Space Coast Health Foundation Inc

The space coast health foundation will enhance the health and wellness of individuals and communities in brevard county. the foundation will carry out this mission by: routinely talking with the community to maintain a pulse on the health…

Health
11
Families First of Palm Beach County Foundation Inc

To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…

Human Services
12
Children's Case Management Organization Inc D/B/a Families First of Pb County

Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Center of West Volusia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pawlicious Poochie Pet Rescue 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

68 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. 68 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
42/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION VOLUSIAFLAGLER: $242,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION VOLUSIAFLAGLERLA'AKEA FOUNDATION: $178,000 · OtherLA'AKEA FOUNDATIONVIGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 · OtherVIGO HISTORICAL SOCIETYOCEARCH: $50,000 · Other+74 more: $603,606 · Other+74 moreMUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC: $610,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE…SPOT SUN VALLEY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSPOT SUN VALLEY INC+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES INC: $287,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF VOLUS…Jae Foundation Inc: $111,000 · PhilanthropyJae Foundation IncHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,500 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FO…+5 more: $27,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $250,000 · EducationTHE SAGE SCH…A PRIMALLY PLAYFUL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationPINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Education+9 more: $39,000 · Education+9 moreHEARTS FOR MOMS INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF VOLUSIA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesJESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $5,000 · Human Services+5 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesPAWLICIOUS POOCHIE PET RESCUE INC: $27,000 · AnimalsOCEARCH: $20,000 · AnimalsHALIFAX HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · AnimalsFLAGLER HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · Animals+2 more: $2,500 · AnimalsSAILFUTURE INC: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,174,106Arts & Culture$650,500Philanthropy$481,000Education$319,000Human Services$92,000Animals$68,500Recreation & Sports$50,000

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 budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC: $610,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES INC: $287,500 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $250,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetJae Foundation Inc: $111,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHEARTS FOR MOMS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAILFUTURE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSPOT SUN VALLEY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE OUR SHORES: $30,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPAWLICIOUS POOCHIE PET RESCUE INC: $27,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetVoice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida: $26,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetWreaths Across America: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,021 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVigo County Historical Society Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOCEARCH: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SUN CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetA PRIMALLY PLAYFUL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetPROJECT HAWAII INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALIFAX HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKEIKI CUPBOARD: $10,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $10,109 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARBOR DISH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoxcroft School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTONA BEACH KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetFIRST STEP SHELTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALOHA VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF VOLUSIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKRISTI HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM DELAWARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLAGLER HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEAMSPORT INC: $3,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFBH COMMUNITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTOP SOLDIER SUICIDE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI OF MAUI INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTONA DREAM CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 2.0% 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.

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.

United Way of Volusia…Simpkins Family Found…Paul B Hunter & Const…Publix Super Markets …Jeep Beach IncSecond Harvest Food B…The Richard M Schulze…Volusiaflagler County…Latitude at Daytona B…Perryman Family Found…Earl W & Patricia B C…Vinik Family Foundati…
United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties IncFL21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc · Simpkins Family Foundation Inc · Paul B Hunter & Constance D Hunter Charitable Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Jeep Beach Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Volusiaflagler County Coalition for the Homeless Inc · Latitude at Daytona Beach · Perryman Family Foundation · Earl W & Patricia B Colvard Charitable Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation

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 Root Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Root Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Kristi House Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Center of West Volusia Inc: 27% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Community Action Stops Abuse Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Autism Delaware Inc: 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Jesus House of Hope Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Whispering Meadows Ranch Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Flagler Humane Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Hearts for Moms Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Halifax Humane Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Root Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Root Family Foundation 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 116 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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