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Rostan Family Foundation
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 $10k15 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $373k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC | $130,000 |
| BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $122,500 |
| APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN STATE PARK INC | $60,000 |
| AMOREM BURKE HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE | $35,000 |
| OLD COLONY PLAYERS INC | $30,000 |
| BURKE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLCHEM DEPENDENCY | $25,000 |
| EAST BURKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| WALDENSIAN HERITAGE MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NC INC | $15,000 |
| CAROLINA OUTDOOR RECREATION AND EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN WALDENSIAN AID SOCIETY INC | $11,000 |
| OPTIONS INC | $10,000 |
| REASON SPAY AND NEUTER | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those 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 +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k 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
- FCFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $468k · revenue +127%
- BUBURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES8× · 2018–2025 · $379k · revenue +786%
- OCOLD COLONY PLAYERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- NSNC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- PAPARKS AND RECREATION TRUST FUNDone grant, 2018 · $70k
- ASALDER SPRINGS DEAF & BLIND COMMUNITYone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
To promote and advance commerce in burke county, nc
To assist in the development of child care resource and referral services in burke county, nc
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with gods people in need by building houses, so that there are decent homes in decent communities in whigh gods people…
To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.
The organization, together with public and private investors, provides affordable housing, housing counseling, education, and community, human, and economic development to improve the quality of life in lee and surrounding counties of nc.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
To provide services relating to heart and pulmonary disease, hypertension, thyroid, diabetes, and cancer screening to those who can't afford these services in carteret county, nc and surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Burke County and the most unlike its peers is Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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. 55 of the 94 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 FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE VALDESE REC INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTS PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE MEETING PLACE ONE INC ↗
- Who funds Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC VALDESE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds GROW WITH DREXEL ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE CHARITABLE PROPERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds BURKE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ASSURE THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLIND- ↗
- Who funds BURKE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENOLA GROUP ↗
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: Community Foundation of Burke County · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Co Ta Huffman-Cornwell Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Gateway Wellness Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · North Carolina Community Foundation · Burke County United Way · Foundation for the Carolinas · Morganton Womans Club Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Grace Episcopal Church 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 Rostan Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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