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Rotsch Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$103kEmployment$45kFood & Nutrition$29kRecreation & Sports$15kCrime & Legal$15kHealth$12kHuman Services$12kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$393k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOTE$8,000
COBBLESTONE FARMS$5,000
TWIN CITIES RISE$5,000
SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NWA$5,000
CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$3,000
BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$3,000
HEALING FLATS$2,000
THE LAKE MINNETONKA GARDEN CLUB$2,000
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION$2,000
CIRCLES OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS$1,000
THE PEEL COMPTON FOUNDATION$1,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
FEEDING AMERICA$1,000
COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ICA FOOD SHELF: $2k → 11%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $3k → 10%ICA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%COBBLESTONE FARMS: $5k → 14%TOGETHER ON PURPOSE: $500 → 10%COBBLESTONE FARMS: $5k → 14%BETTER TOGETHER: $2k → 10%COBBLESTONE FARMS: $1k → 14%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $6k → 10%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5k → 10%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5k → 10%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5k → 10%HAVENWOOD: $3k → 8%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5k → 10%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5k → 10%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5k → 10%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

MN
IL
WI
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MA
OR
CA
MD
KS
AR
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OK
GA
FL

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$253k · 30 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
19

Total granted

$253k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+37%

Still filing today

70%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NH
    NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +84%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +43%
  • VD
    VETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMPASSION HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • HI
    HAVENWOOD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -28%
  • BT
    BETTER TOGETHER
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

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
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
6
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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7
Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation

Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.

Education
8
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
9
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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10
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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11
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Peel Compton Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Pantries & AssistanceVeteran Support ServicesPublic Library SupportGovernment Accountability R…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Animal Rescue and AdoptionLand Conservation Organizat…Independent K-8 SchoolsEducation Equity LeadershipSmall Business Development …Child and Family ServicesPublic University Foundatio…Youth Ice Hockey Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%48%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,521

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

44 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. 44 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOTE — $22,500 · OtherMOTESINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NWA — $15,000 · OtherSINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NWAIndividual grant recipient — $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIDEAWAY MEMBER SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $6,000 · OtherSTARTING RIGHT NOW — $6,000 · OtherIRONWOOD AREA SCHOOLS — $4,500 · OtherMINNESOTA WARRIORS ICE HOCKEY — $7,500 · OtherMINNESOTA WARRIORS ICE HOCKEYVETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT — $8,500 · OtherVETERANS DEFENSE PROJECTLAKE MINNETONKA GARDEN CLUB — $6,000 · Other+22 more — $40,500 · Other+22 moreNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWE…THE COBBLESTONE PROJECT — $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE COBBLESTONE PROJECTCrisis Assistance Ministry — $3,000 · Human ServicesHAVENWOOD INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 · Human Services+4 more — $5,500 · Human Services+4 moreTwin Cities Rise — $45,000 · EmploymentTwin Cities RiseUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $16,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…BENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EducationBENTONVILLE …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HON…ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC — $1,500 · EducationBreck School — $1,150 · Education+2 more — $2,000 · Education+2 moreSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $5,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $4,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $1,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionMINDS MATTER OF THE TWIN CITIES INC — $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentCenter of the American Experiment — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentICING SMILES Inc — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEALING FLATS — $9,000 · HealthATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $1,500 · Health
Other$125,500Human Services$60,500Employment$45,000Education$32,650Food & Nutrition$12,000Youth Development$11,500Health$10,500

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 budgetTwin Cities Rise — $45,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COBBLESTONE PROJECT — $11,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHEALING FLATS — $9,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetVETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT — $8,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetBENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF THE TWIN CITIES INC — $6,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSTARTING RIGHT NOW — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE MINNETONKA GARDEN CLUB — $6,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVENWOOD INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEvery Kid Sports — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreck School — $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIRLFRIEND FACTOR — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICING SMILES Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER ON PURPOSE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Arvest FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Wal-Mart FoundationWalton Family Foundat…Arkansas Community Fo…Alice L Walton Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN24.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Arvest Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Wal-Mart Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Alice L Walton Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Rotsch 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 59 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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