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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.

$680k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$720kEnvironment$525kHousing & Shelter$492kReligion$488kPhilanthropy$452kRecreation & Sports$413kArts & Culture$393kEducation$223kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $373k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC$130,000
BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$122,500
FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN STATE PARK INC$60,000
APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 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
OLIVE HILL COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $10k → 12%APPLESEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC: $60k → 15%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $5k → 12%PREVENT BLINDNESS NORTH CAROLINA: $9k → 8%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $5k → 12%CALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLATIVE CARE INC: $9k → 16%PREVENT BLINDNESS NORTH CAROLINA: $6k → 8%PREVENT BLINDNESS NORTH CAROLINA: $6k → 8%PREVENT BLINDNESS NORTH CAROLINA: $5k → 8%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $3k → 10%THE OUTREACH CENTER: $20k → 13%THE OUTREACH CENTER: $15k → 13%THE MEETING PLACE MISSION: $14k → 13%SOUTH MOUNTAIN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 13%THE MEETING PLACE MISSION: $13k → 13%THE OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 13%THE MEETING PLACE MISSION: $10k → 13%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 13%THE MEETING PLACE MISSION: $10k → 13%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 13%THE MEETING PLACE MISSION: $8k → 13%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION: $7k → 13%THE OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%THE OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%THE OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%THE OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%THE MEETING PLACE MISSION: $5k → 13%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 13%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION: $4k → 13%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION: $4k → 13%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION: $4k → 13%THE MEETING PLACE MISSION: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 48 repeat orgs$828k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
35

Total granted

$3.8M
$617k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+38%

Still filing today

60%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $468k · revenue +84%
  • BU
    BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $379k · revenue +786%
  • OC
    OLD COLONY PLAYERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • NS
    NC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • PA
    PARKS AND RECREATION TRUST FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
  • HV
    HISTORIC VALDESE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · 30% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Burke County Chamber of Commerce I Burke County Chamber of Commerce I

To promote and advance commerce in burke county, nc

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2
Child Care Connections of Burke Co

To assist in the development of child care resource and referral services in burke county, nc

Human Services
3
Habitat for Humanity of Burke County Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
5
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.

Housing & Shelter
6
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
7
Carolina Pregnancy Center

We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.

Health
8
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
9
Brick Capital Community Development Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
10
Carolina Community Care Inc

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,…

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11
Rowan Economic Development Council

Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina

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12
Broad Street Clinic Foundation

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Burke County; 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.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $777,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $378,500 · OtherBURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESWALDENSIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $260,000 · OtherWALDENSIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHEAST BURKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $105,000 · OtherNC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE VALDESE REC INC: $132,500 · Other+57 more: $1,163,100 · Other+57 moreFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $467,500 · EnvironmentFOOTHILLS C…CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentCATAWBA RIV…+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY: $415,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …FOOTHILLS SERVICE PROJECT: $27,000 · PhilanthropyFOOTHILLS …+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $174,500 · HealthGOOD SAMA…BURKE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY INC: $85,000 · HealthBURKE COU…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $40,000 · HealthPLANNED P…THE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION: $30,000 · HealthTHE CENTE…ASSURE THE FUTURE INC: $29,500 · HealthASSURE TH…Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte: $19,000 · HealthCASTING FOR HOPE: $15,000 · Health+3 more: $18,000 · HealthTHE OUTREACH CENTER: $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE MEETING PLACE ONE INC: $61,500 · Human ServicesApseed Early Childhood Education Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $44,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLIND-: $25,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHMOUNTAIN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $12,500 · Human Services+2 more: $11,500 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY PLAYERS INC: $223,000 · Arts & CultureBURKE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $8,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $152,000 · EducationBURKE COUNTY SMART START INC: $18,750 · Education
Other$2,916,200Environment$517,500Philanthropy$452,000Health$411,000Human Services$300,000Arts & Culture$256,000Education$170,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $467,500 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY: $415,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetBURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $378,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetOLD COLONY PLAYERS INC: $223,000 over 9y, 24% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $174,500 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $152,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE VALDESE REC INC: $132,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBURKE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY INC: $85,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE OUTREACH CENTER: $65,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetOPEN HEARTS PLACE: $63,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetTHE MEETING PLACE ONE INC: $61,500 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetHISTORIC VALDESE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $44,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPTIONS INC: $39,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetBURKE CHARITABLE PROPERTIES INC: $37,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetA BETTER LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetASSURE THE FUTURE INC: $29,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetFOOTHILLS SERVICE PROJECT: $27,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLIND-: $25,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBURKE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE ENOLA GROUP: $22,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte: $19,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBURKE COUNTY SMART START INC: $18,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetC2LIFE FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCASTING FOR HOPE: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHISTORIC BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetSOUTHMOUNTAIN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN WALDENSIAN SOCIETY: $11,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATS CRADLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FONTA FLORA STATE TRAIL: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FORWARD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIMOSA CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAINS-TO-SEA TRAIL: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEXPLORING JOARA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BURKE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds A BETTER LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…Co Ta Huffman-Cornwel…The Cannon Foundation…Gateway Wellness Foun…Dogwood Health TrustNorth Carolina Commun…Burke County United W…Foundation for the Ca…Morganton Womans Club…Duke Energy FoundationGrace Episcopal Churc…
Community Foundation of Burke CountyNC62× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rostan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rostan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rostan Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rostan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 94 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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