Skip to content

Washington · Private foundation

The Robert P Rotella Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.8M
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
33%
First-time grantees FY2020
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2020
$2,050
Largest grant, FY2020
$8,827,975
Organizations funded a year
3 to 34
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 33% of the organizations The Robert P Rotella Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20203$8.8M33%
FY201934$1.5Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

Philanthropy$10MCivil Rights$48kPublic Benefit$28kEnvironment$22kHealth$18kScience & Tech$16kAnimals$13kCrime & Legal$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
DC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert P Rotella Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Policy Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Rutherford Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEnvironmental Working Group: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Food Safety: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPollinator Partnership: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBarry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Network Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLudwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMoving Picture Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBat Conservation International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtlas Economic Research Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetState Policy Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Maiti Nepal a Non-Profit Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTax Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPearl S Buck International Inc: $4,510 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Rivers Conservancy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPcc Farmland Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Wild: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVeterans For Child Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Seattle FoundationWA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

Compare The Robert P Rotella Foundation with peer funders

About The Robert P Rotella Foundation

How much does The Robert P Rotella Foundation give?
The Robert P Rotella Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $8,832,025 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does The Robert P Rotella Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (98%), Civil Rights (0%), Public Benefit (0%).
Who are The Robert P Rotella Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2020: Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ($15k), Washington Policy Center ($15k), The Rutherford Institute ($10k).
Does The Robert P Rotella Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert P Rotella 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 Robert P Rotella Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Robert P Rotella Foundation based?
The Robert P Rotella Foundation is based in WA.

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 35 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Robert P Rotella’s filings →

More from the funding graph