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Roth 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$5.6MHousing & Shelter$2.3MCivil Rights$1.1MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$972kScience & Tech$715kArts & Culture$585kPublic Benefit$571kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $217k
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC$500,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$250,000
MY FRIEND'S PLACE$100,000
DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES$65,000
NORTH COUNTY LGBTQ RESOURCE CENTER$51,667
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS$20,000
CALIBRATE$20,000
GLOBAL ARTS$14,000
THE ADVOT PROJECT$10,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$10,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
TAKING THE REINS$5,000
FRIENDS OF CABRILLO MARINE AQUARIUM$5,000
WINGS OF RESCUE$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $5k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $2k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTH CARE LOS ANGELES: $2k → 14%SCOPE: $15k → 14%JENESSE CENTER: $250k → 14%JENESSE CENTER: $250k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $6k → 14%PATH: $5k → 14%PATH PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $3k → 14%JOVENES INC: $250k → 14%JOVENES INC: $250k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $10k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $5k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $4k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $2k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $5k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $5k → 14%IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $4k → 14%IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
MD
DC
AL
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 38 repeat orgs$7.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
51

Total granted

$5.8M
$7.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+29%

Still filing today

66%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $643k 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
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES
    3× · 2017–2020 · $1.8M · revenue +86%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $685k · revenue +14%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES
    4× · 2019–2023 · $650k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • RL
    RED LEAF FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5.1M · revenue ×37
  • VL
    VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $525k · revenue -42%
  • HO
    HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -23%

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

04Your field

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.

1
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
3
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
4
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
5
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
6
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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7
Aclu Foundation of Southern California

See schedule o for detailsthe organization defends the civil liberties enshrined in the us constitution and the bill of rights through litigation, policy advocacy, media advocacy, and organizing. it fights to secure and protect the civil…

Civil Rights
8
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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9
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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10
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
11
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Red Leaf Family Foundation. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr12%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%42%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr12%13%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
4/74
the rest of the field
14%
12,949/93,182

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.

04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 101 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/72
Grantees still filing
50/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RED LEAF FAMILY FOUNDATION — $5,074,550 · PhilanthropyRED LEAF FAMILY FOUNDATIONTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $1,805,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES+11 more — $558,250 · Philanthropy+11 moreMY FRIEND'S PLACE — $431,500 · OtherMY FRIEND'S PL…KCRW FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · OtherKCRW FOUNDATIO…NALEO — $150,000 · OtherNALEOPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY — $150,000 · OtherPEOPLE FOR THE…WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CLINIC — $150,000 · OtherWESTSIDE FAMIL…+50 more — $638,864 · Other+50 moreVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $525,000 · Civil RightsVOTO LATINO…LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $500,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGA…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $261,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CI…North County LGBTQ Resource Center — $51,667 · Civil Rights+3 more — $55,000 · Civil RightsJenesse Center Inc — $500,000 · Human ServicesJOVENES INC — $500,000 · Human Services+10 more — $76,600 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $685,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $155,000 · Arts & CultureBellingham Festival of Music — $82,500 · Arts & CultureDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $65,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $30,500 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $650,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 · Health+2 more — $9,500 · HealthHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $500,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $15,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$7,437,800Other$1,770,364Civil Rights$1,393,167Human Services$1,076,600Arts & Culture$1,018,000Health$759,500Youth Development$515,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $1,805,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $685,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $650,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $525,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJenesse Center Inc — $500,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetJOVENES INC — $500,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $261,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $170,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $155,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY — $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSocial Impact Fund — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $85,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBellingham Festival of Music — $82,500 over 7y, 10% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $65,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSTREET POETS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetADVOT — $47,500 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $29,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElevated Access Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWERPAC FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Purposeful Rescue Inc — $21,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTAKING THE REINS — $20,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART — $12,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTRONG FOODLA KITCHEN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF CABRILLO AQUARIUM — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AURELIA FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPATH — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE OPEN SCHOOL INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWELLS BRING HOPE — $5,600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Conrad N Hilton Found…The Ralph M Parsons F…Liberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe California Endowm…The Crail-Johnson Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The Rose Hills Founda…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Wellne…
California Community FoundationCA29× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness 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 Roth 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Roth Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Roth 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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