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Roulston Foundation the Eileen and Lex at a glance

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Roulston Foundation the Eileen and Lex

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$364k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$363k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$785kReligion$31kEducation$25kHuman Services$11kFood & Nutrition$10kHousing & Shelter$5kCommunity Improvement$3kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $250k+1 grant · $363k
$362,645
Median grant
1
States reached
$152k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION$362,645
UNITED WAY$1,000
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 (FY18–18, $245) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $245 → 14%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

MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AR
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$851k · 14 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
26

Total granted

$851k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+30%

Still filing today

57%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $38k · revenue +33%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • SU
    Scripture Union
    2× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SC
    SANCAP CARES
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • CH
    Community Housing and Resources Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +233%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…

Health
4
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

—
5
American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Mission statement: advancing evidence-based lifestyle medicine to treat, reverse and prevent non-communicable, chronic disease. vision statement: a nation and world wherein lifestyle medicine is the foundation of health and all healthcare.…

Health
6
American College of Radiology

The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…

Health
7
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
8
American College of Surgeons

The american college of surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.

Education
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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10
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases

To advance and disseminate the science and practice of hepatology, and to promote liver health and quality patient care.

Health
11
National Multiple Sclerosis Society

We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.

Health
12
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; the most unlike its peers is Kind Human Foundation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 40 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $741,195 · PhilanthropyLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyCHURCH OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN: $18,000 · OtherScripture Union: $13,000 · OtherSANCAP CARES: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherUNITED WAY: $2,000 · Other+21 more: $7,635 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc: $37,945 · Health+6 more: $2,950 · HealthDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,345 · Food & NutritionCommunity Housing and Resources Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · InternationalHAVEN OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $245 · International
Philanthropy$741,695Other$52,635Health$40,895Education$25,000Food & Nutrition$10,345Housing & Shelter$5,000International$1,245

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 budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $37,945 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetScripture Union: $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,345 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Housing and Resources Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIND HUMAN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $990 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $490 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $490 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $245 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $245 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Roulston Foundation the Eileen and Lex funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roulston Foundation the Eileen and Lex. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report 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
    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 40 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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