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The Roe Foundation Inc

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$211k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.2MArts & Culture$883kEducation$648kScience & Tech$630kFood & Nutrition$558kHuman Services$524kAnimals$496kEnvironment$466kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC$211,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$200,000
NEIGHBORS LINK CORPORATION$111,264
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING$106,355
UTAH FILM CENTER$100,000
CONSERVAMERICA$100,000
PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION$100,000
ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY$75,000
ANDREW SABIN FAMILY FOUNDATION$75,000
OZUAH FAMILY FOUNDATION$50,000
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$25,000
ELON UNIVERSITY$25,000
CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
A1 STIGMA FREE COALITION$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $680k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW ENGLAND MUSICIANS RELIEF FUND: $1k → 16%HOYT FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $106k → 17%THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $100k → 17%ASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10k → 15%NEIGHBORS LINK CORPORATION: $111k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $100k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $83k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $59k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $50k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORPORATION: $50k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORPORATION: $8k → 9%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

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WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
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VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 42 repeat orgs$910k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
71

Total granted

$6.1M
$594k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+23%

Still filing today

76%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEducationInternationalOther
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

  • MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $630k · revenue +89%
  • SF
    SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $485k · revenue +21%
  • NL
    NEIGHBORS LINK CORP
    6× · 2019–2024 · $462k · revenue +297%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +30%
  • ST
    STRONGER THAN EVER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • TS
    THE STATUE OF LIBERTY-ELLIS ISLAND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

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New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
7
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
8
Dana-Farber Inc

The purpose and activities of dana-farber, inc. are to promote and support the exempt missions of dana-farber cancer institute and to provide investment management services.

Unclassified
9
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
10
The National Fragile X Foundation

The national fragile x foundation serves the entire fragile x community to live their best lives by providing the knowledge, resources, and tools until, and even after, more effective treatments and a cure are achieved.

Health
11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Beth's Furry Friends 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

98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 131 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
98/98
Grantees still filing
62/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $629,847 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCOZUAH FAMILY FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherOZUAH FAMILY FOUNDATIONROOSEVELT CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherROOSEVELT CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONCONSERVAMERICA: $200,000 · OtherCONSERVAMERICAELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $125,000 · OtherDOUGLAS AND KAISA LEVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 · OtherONE WORLD ONE VISION: $111,000 · OtherUTAH FILM CENTER: $100,000 · Other+71 more: $690,057 · Other+71 moreACT FOR NIH FOUNDATION INC: $675,000 · PhilanthropyACT FOR NIH FOUNDATION INCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F…ANDREW SABIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $287,000 · PhilanthropyANDREW SABIN FAMILY FOUNDA…DANIEL FAMILY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyDANIEL FAMILY FOUNDATIONPebble Beach Company Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPebble Beach Company Found…+11 more: $127,833 · Philanthropy+11 moreLIFE TIME FOUNDATION: $552,500 · EducationLIFE TIME FOUNDAT…Fordham University: $320,000 · EducationFordham Universit…FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $179,000 · EducationFLORIDA INTERNATI…+5 more: $81,000 · Education+5 moreNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $461,612 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS …THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: $206,355 · Human ServicesTHE AMERIC…+3 more: $12,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: $485,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC: $50,000 · Environment+4 more: $23,500 · EnvironmentWildlife Conservation Society: $253,000 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORATION: $163,780 · AnimalsNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Animals+6 more: $39,500 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $110,000 · InternationalSTRONGER THAN EVER: $50,000 · InternationalThe Pad Project: $15,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S HOPE INDIA LLC: $10,000 · International+4 more: $6,500 · International
Other$2,570,904Philanthropy$1,689,833Education$1,132,500Human Services$679,967Environment$558,500Animals$506,280International$191,500

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 budgetACT FOR NIH FOUNDATION INC: $675,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $629,847 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLIFE TIME FOUNDATION: $552,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: $485,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $461,612 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetFordham University: $320,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW SABIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $287,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $253,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: $206,355 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $179,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION: $163,780 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $125,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $110,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOSTER CARE REVIEW INC: $60,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSTRONGER THAN EVER: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANIAL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BUGATTI TRUST INC: $35,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE JOE AND KAY CALVANESE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE CANTOR FITZGERALD RELIEF FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE TRACK MIND FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Pad Project: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOCEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH'S FURRY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INDIA LLC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $9,000 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.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundViking Global Foundat…Fraydun Foundation IncFairfield County's Co…The Ayco Charitable F…Webster Bank Charitab…Mbia FoundationSelect Equity Group F…The Bessemer Giving F…Mother Cabrini Health…Maniatty & Walker Fam…
The New York Community TrustNY22.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Fraydun Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Mbia Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Maniatty & Walker Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Roe Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roe Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Foster Care Review Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Stamford Center for the Arts Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Connecticut Community Care Inc: 15% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc: 11% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Young Musicians Unite Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
13report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Roe Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Roe Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 131 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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