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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.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$449kArts & Culture$162kEnvironment$143kHousing & Shelter$92kHuman Services$65kHealth$54kFood & Nutrition$51kRecreation & Sports$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DARBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$55,000
THE OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT$10,000
MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION$10,000
BITTERROOT LAND TRUST$8,000
SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONFERENCE$8,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$7,000
CASA$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
WILD SALMON CENTER$5,000
IN A LANDSCAPE$5,000
WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION(WCDF)$5,000
WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST$5,000
CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION$5,000
THE ADVOCATES$5,000
WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER OREGON: $5k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER OREGON: $3k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER OREGON: $2k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER OREGON: $2k → 8%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE FUND: $10k → 7%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE FUND: $2k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $7k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $5k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $5k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%WORLD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH: $1k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
WI
NY
OR
SD
PA
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$994k · 57 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
72

Total granted

$994k
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

72%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $142k · revenue +30%
  • OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +26%
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +322%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +127%
  • AN
    ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -3%
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
Washington Water Trust

Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…

Environment
2
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
3
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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4
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
5
Save the Redwoods League

Save the redwoods league protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish.

Environment
6
Deschutes Land Trust

To preserve and enhance natural ecosystems, scenic areas, open spaces, fish and wildlife habitat within deschutes basin.

Environment
7
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
8
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
9
Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Foundation

The foundation board is comprised of members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who devote their shared commitment and passion to collectively support protection and restoration of the washington coast region salmon by providing…

Animals
10
The Wetlands Conservancy Inc

Founded in 1981, the wetlands conservancy is dedicated to working in partnership with communities statewide to permanently protect, conserve and restore oregon's greatest wetlands.

Environment
11
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
12
Agricultural Research Foundation

Our mission is to encourage facilitate support and engage in scientific investigation and research experimentation and to advance educational and training activities related to agriculture and natural resources throughout the state of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center; the most unlike its peers is Word of Honor Fund. 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

79 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. 79 of the 138 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
51/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DARBY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $200,000 · OtherDARBY SCHOOL DISTRICTDARBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $64,000 · OtherDARBY PUBLIC SCHOOLSTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $61,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $29,000 · Other+92 more: $416,304 · Other+92 moreLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $141,500 · EducationLEWIS & CLARK CO…SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $16,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITE…+5 more: $16,500 · Education+5 morePORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $28,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND …THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $23,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT…OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $19,050 · Arts & CultureOREGON PU…OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON JO…NORDIC NORTHWEST: $7,500 · Arts & CultureNORDIC NO…OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF TIMBERLINE: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $2,915 · Arts & CultureOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $35,500 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTER: $17,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsWord of Honor Fund: $27,500 · Human ServicesBald Mountain Rescue Fund: $12,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $11,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $11,000 · EnvironmentBITTER ROOT LAND TRUST: $9,000 · EnvironmentLEACH GARDEN FRIENDS: $6,000 · EnvironmentTHE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB: $5,540 · EnvironmentWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $5,000 · EnvironmentLORD AND SCHRYVER CONSERVANCY: $2,500 · EnvironmentJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON: $1,500 · Environment+2 more: $1,090 · EnvironmentDARBY RODEO ASSOCIATION: $18,000 · Food & NutritionBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $8,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$770,304Education$174,000Arts & Culture$100,465Animals$53,500Human Services$52,000Environment$41,630Food & Nutrition$37,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $141,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $61,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $35,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $28,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWord of Honor Fund: $27,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $21,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $21,334 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $19,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDARBY RODEO ASSOCIATION: $18,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $17,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Tryon Creek: $16,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTransition Projects Inc: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIN A LANDSCAPE: $14,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBald Mountain Rescue Fund: $12,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $11,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBITTER ROOT LAND TRUST: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC: $8,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNORDIC NORTHWEST: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT REDWOOD: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEACH GARDEN FRIENDS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB: $5,540 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY AND SHELTER ASSISTANCE CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF TIMBERLINE: $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE DIVISION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFARWISE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION: $3,100 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
  • Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds DARBY RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Tryon Creek ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
  • Who funds IN A LANDSCAPE ↗
  • Who funds Bald Mountain Rescue Fund ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BITTER ROOT LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NORDIC NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …The Jackson FoundationMaybelle Clark Macdon…Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Harold & Arlene S…Oregon Jewish Communi…Kohnstamm Family Foun…Rose E Tucker Charita…The Autzen FoundationJuan Young TrustThe Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial Trust
The Oregon Community FoundationOR46.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Kohnstamm Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
  • United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: 25% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers: 18% of income from government
  • Literary Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Community and Shelter Assistance Corp: 5% of income from government
  • Columbia River Maritime Museum: 3% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • Casa for Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
  • In a Landscape: 0% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 138 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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