· Private foundation
The Francis and Kathleen Rooney Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $470k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC | $1,500,000 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $675,000 |
| MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $350,000 |
| WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY | $300,000 |
| THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CONSORTIUM OF CATHOLIC ACADEMIES | $200,000 |
| AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC | $100,000 |
| BELLA MENTE QUANTUM RACING ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| NAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC | $20,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NCNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $12M · revenue +20%
- OSOklahoma State University Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +43%
- AMAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2019–2024 · $700k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- NCNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $354k · revenue +31%
- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +44%
- AEAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 42 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONUMENTAL SCHOLARS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association ↗
- Who funds THE FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 The Francis and Kathleen Rooney 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.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.