Illinois · Private foundation
Rooted Alliance Inc
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.
- $6.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,094,756
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 70% of the organizations Rooted Alliance Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $5.4M | 55% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $6.4M | 70% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $4.1M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $4.0M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $2.6M | 56% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ayers Foundation | $2,749,598 | 3 | 77% |
| West Central Texas Workforce Development Board Inc | $989,657 | 2 | 61% |
| Citizens for Educational Excellence Inc | $735,762 | 2 | 47% |
| National College Advising Corps Inc | $682,713 | 2 | 2% |
| Education Service Center Region I of Texas | $533,830 | 1 | n/a |
| Missouri College and Career Attainment Network | $328,000 | 2 | 21% |
| Achieving the Dream Inc | $294,500 | 3 | 1% |
| National Governors Association Center for Best Practices | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Missouri Chamber Foundation | $77,000 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rooted Alliance Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Gates Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Rooted Alliance Inc
- How much does Rooted Alliance Inc give?
- Rooted Alliance Inc reported 18 grants totaling $6,116,904 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Rooted Alliance Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (75%), Philanthropy (21%), Employment (4%).
- Who are Rooted Alliance Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Ayers Foundation ($2.7M), West Central Texas Workforce Development Board Inc ($990k), Citizens for Educational Excellence Inc ($736k).
- Does Rooted Alliance Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rooted Alliance Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rooted Alliance Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lumina Foundation for Education Inc, Gates Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Rooted Alliance Inc based?
- Rooted Alliance Inc is based in IL.
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