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Roth Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Roth Family Charitable 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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$240kArts & Culture$205kHuman Services$198kHealth$21kYouth Development$15kEducation$14kRecreation & Sports$9kEmployment$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS$50,000
UNITED SOUND$50,000
SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND$20,000
THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION CAMP ABLE$15,000
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 (FY19–25, $388k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Pawsitive Friendships: $55k → 11%Sierra Delta: $50k → 9%Pawsitive Friendships: $50k → 11%Sierra Delta: $50k → 9%PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS: $50k → 11%Sierra Delta: $15k → 9%Pawsitive Friendships: $45k → 11%Sierra Delta: $3k → 9%Pawsitive Friendships: $35k → 11%SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND: $20k → 11%Soldier's Best Friend: $15k → 11%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$614k · 5 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$614k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-11%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationReligionRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • PF
    PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $235k · revenue +156%
  • US
    UNITED SOUND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +16%
  • SD
    SIERRA DELTA INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $118k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • DC
    DETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -49%
  • AE
    Alhambra Education Partnerships
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue -92%
  • SP
    Spencer's Place
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Service Dogs of New Mexico

Train service dogs for veterans

Animals
2
The Monkey Tail Ranch Inc

To provide service dogs, equine therapy, and respite time to children, adults, and families who face the daily challenges of Autism, Post-Traumatic Stress(PTSD) and anxiety.

Human Services
3
High Desert Police K9 Association
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4
A Cause to Give Us Paws

Service Dog training for Disabled Veterans

Animals
5
Pawsitive Teams Inc

The mission of Pawsitive Teams is to enhance the lives of individuals with special needs who live in San Diego county by using the skills of highly trained service, facility and therapy dogs.

Animals
6
Golden Paws Assistance Dogs Inc

To provide independence and improve the quality of life for combat wounded veterans, first responders and children by creating life changing partnerships with highly skilled assistance dogs.

Human Services
7
Paws for Purple Hearts

Paws for Purple Hearts improves the lives of America's Warriors facing mobility challenges and trauma-related conditions such as PTSD and TBI by providing the highest quality assistance dogs and canine-assisted therapeutic programs; and by…

Public Benefit
8
Michael's Angel Paws Inc
Human Services
9
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
10
Pawsitive Pawsibilities

To purchase and train service dogs for disabled individuals

Animals
11
Alpha Bravo Canine

Helping veterans with ptsd and traumatic brain injuries regain quality of life using service dogs.

Human Services
12
K9s On the Front Line

Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Higher Octave Healing Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alhambra Education Partnerships. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC: $235,000 · Human ServicesPAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INCSIERRA DELTA INC: $117,500 · Human ServicesSIERRA DELTA INCDETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesDETOUR COMPANY THEATER INCSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $35,000 · Human ServicesSOLDIERS BEST FRIENDUNITED SOUND INC: $205,000 · EducationUNITED SOUND INCTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION CAMP ABLE: $15,000 · OtherSpencer's Place: $10,000 · OtherEmployed and Overjoyed Foundation I: $5,000 · OtherHIGHER OCTAVE HEALING INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureAlhambra Education Partnerships: $14,000 · ReligionMOUNTAIN RIDGE BAND AIDES INC: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE DONKEYS OF THE HEART INC: $5,000 · AnimalsUS MARSHALS SURVIVORS BENEFIT FUND: $400 · Public Benefit
Human Services$422,500Education$205,000Other$30,000Arts & Culture$21,000Religion$14,000Recreation & Sports$9,000Animals$5,000Public Benefit$400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC: $235,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetUNITED SOUND INC: $205,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetSIERRA DELTA INC: $117,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetDETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHIGHER OCTAVE HEALING INC: $21,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAlhambra Education Partnerships: $14,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE DONKEYS OF THE HEART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetUS MARSHALS SURVIVORS BENEFIT FUND: $400 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Thunderbirds CharitiesArizona Community Fou…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Thunderbirds CharitiesAZ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 13 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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