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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.

$12k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$246k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Roper Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$12k0%
FY20244$18k25%
FY20232$15k0%
FY20222$13k0%
FY20212$18k50%
FY20201$5k100%
FY20194$16k50%
FY20183$4k33%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$68kArts & Culture$33kRecreation & Sports$5kScience & Tech$3kEnvironment$1kEducation$1kFood & Nutrition$715

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roper Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Arts of Central Florida Inc: $20,125 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGarden Theatre Inc: $9,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPayette Lakes Ski Club Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWinter Garden Art Association: $2,700 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOrlando Science Centerinc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Nature Preserve Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOpera Orlando Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: $715 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Roper Family Foundation Inc

How much does Roper Family Foundation Inc give?
Roper Family Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $11,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Roper Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (61%), Arts & Culture (30%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
Who are Roper Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Arts of Central Florida Inc ($20k), Garden Theatre Inc ($9k), Payette Lakes Ski Club Inc ($5k).
Does Roper Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Roper Family Foundation 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 Roper Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, The Bond Foundation Inc, Universal Orlando Foundation Inc.
Where is Roper Family Foundation Inc based?
Roper Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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