Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Ropchan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $551k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ropchan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $25k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $26k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $22k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $24k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $29k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $32k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sycamore Land Trust Incorporated | $82,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Fort Wayne Trails Inc | $38,029 | 4 | 3% |
| ACRES Inc | $25,495 | 3 | 0% |
| Niches Land Trust Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Whitewater Valley Land Trust Incorporated | $17,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Little River Wetlands Project Inc | $14,500 | 2 | 2% |
| The Conservation Law Center Inc | $11,464 | 1 | 1% |
| Presbyterian Church USA | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lc Nature Park Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
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: Nisource Charitable Foundation · M E Raker Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · The Nature Conservancy · Laura Hare Charitable Trust · O'Rourke Schof Family Foundation · Magee-O'Connor Foundation Inc I/C/O Mr Douglas E Miller · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · McMillen Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Ropchan Foundation
- How much does Ropchan Foundation give?
- Ropchan Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ropchan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (78%), Recreation & Sports (16%), Religion (3%).
- Who are Ropchan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sycamore Land Trust Incorporated ($83k), Fort Wayne Trails Inc ($38k), ACRES Inc ($25k).
- Does Ropchan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ropchan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ropchan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nisource Charitable Foundation, M E Raker Foundation Inc, English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn.
- Where is Ropchan Foundation based?
- Ropchan Foundation is based in PA.
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