· Private foundation
Roper Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL FLORIDA YMCA | $10,000 |
| GARDEN THEATRE | $1,500 |
| WINTER GARDEN ART ASSOCIATION | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UAUNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +97%
- GTGARDEN THEATRE INC4× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +46%
- WGWINTER GARDEN ART ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- PLPAYETTE LAKES SKI CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +26%
- OSORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -10%
- CFCEN FL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2024 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the orlando museum of art is to interpret and present art for a diverse public audience; to positively affect people's lives with inclusive, innovative, and inspiring educational programming which will endure as a cultural…
By offering quality theatrical experiences and performing arts eduction, ocala civic theatre helps cultivate future artists and audiences, fostering a lifelong connection to the arts. we work to ensure the arts remain a place where the…
The orlando philharmonic orchestra is central floridas resident professional orchestra. its mission is to foster and promote symphonic music through excellence in performance, education and cultural leadership. each season, the…
Guided by the vision of arts for every life, the dr. phillips center serves as a cultural conerstone for orlando and the seven-county region as well as the many visitors to the orlando area. we bring arts to life through performances,…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Central florida vocal arts and opera del sol exist to create a better central florida community through arts education, performance and appreciation. we strive to create equitable access to meaningful arts experiences for all people in our…
To create cultural experiences and educational opportunities for our community through music. This includes symphony orchestra performances and other live entertainment at the Reilly Arts Center and the Marion Theatre in Downtown Ocala.
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…
To provide art education and exhibit art by local artists for the enrichment and benefit of the public in Flagler and surrounding counties, Florida.
Florida rep is committed to providing a first-class regional theatre for southwest florida; to creating, nurturing and developing an ensemble of theatre professionals who will develop long term relationships working on a wide variety of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Garden Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Payette Lakes Ski Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PAYETTE LAKES SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER GARDEN ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Bond Foundation Inc · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Roper Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Garden Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.