Does The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Haines Philanthropic Foundation, The Carpenter Foundation.

The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation

The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation at a glance

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The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation

Q: What does The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), Arts & Culture (12%), Philanthropy (11%).

Q: Who are The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ashland Community Hospital Foundation ($1.6M), Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice ($327k), Chelsea's Fund ($80k).

Q: Does The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.4M

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$675kArts & Culture$186kPhilanthropy$160kFood & Nutrition$93kEnvironment$89kCivil Rights$80kAnimals$68kInternational$51kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $32k
$10k–50k7 grants · $97k
$250k+1 grant · $1.4M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ASHLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$1,375,000
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL	$25,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$15,000
WYOFILE	$12,500
THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$12,000
ASHLAND FOOD BANK	$12,000
SMILE TRAIN	$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$10,000
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY	$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER	$5,000
HEARD MUSEUM	$5,000
ASHLAND ELKS LODGE 944	$4,000
PEACE HOUSE	$3,000
KITCHEN ANGELS	$2,500
JACKSON COUNTY SART	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 32 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+40%

Still filing today

63%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthEducationHuman 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

AC
ASHLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +124%
SO
SOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE
7× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue +72%
SMILE TRAIN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +19%

Funded once

CF
CHELSEA'S FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +40%
RC
ROGUE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +287%
LV
LAS VEGAS NM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $25k

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.

Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education

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

Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment

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

The Oregon Zoo Foundation

To foster community pride and involvement in the oregon zoo and to secure financial support for the zoo's conservation, education and animal well-being programs.

Animals

Wallowa Land Trust

Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.

Environment

Friends of the Columbia Gorge

Ensuring the gorge remains a vibrant, living place wondrous, wild, and accessible for all is at the core of what we do. friends of the columbia gorge works to protect, preserve, and steward the columbia gorge for future generations.

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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…

—

Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment

Council of Western State Foresters

The council of western state foresters (cwsf) promotes the conservation, protection, and sustainable management of forests for today and generations to come by leading collective action, fostering learning, facilitating resource sharing,…

Environment

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance. 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

36 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. 36 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/36

Grantees still filing

24/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$1,667,500Other$571,850Human Services$349,830Arts & Culture$140,500Philanthropy$110,250Environment$80,500Civil Rights$80,000

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

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR28.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Haines Philanthropic Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · The Thalden Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Quinn Hill Foundation · Careoregon Inc · Jed & Celia Meese Foundation · Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation · Gardner Grout 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 The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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