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The Rohan Foundation at a glance

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The Rohan 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.

$114k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$125kInternational$76kArts & Culture$73kEducation$26kRecreation & Sports$12kEnvironment$11kFood & Nutrition$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
$500
Median grant
14
States reached
$164k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAF AMERICA$35,000
Individual grant recipient$20,845
AFLOUVRE$10,000
WWWDONORSCHOOSEORG$6,069
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$4,000
36 INDIVIDUAL CONT OF LESS THAN 200$3,741
SAINTSPANTR$3,715
AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$2,500
AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPA$2,200
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$2,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,500
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$1,425
NTXAGAPE RESOURCE AND ASSISTANCE CENTER$1,050
Individual grant recipient$1,050
Individual grant recipient$1,040
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 (FY22–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $300 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $150 → 7%THE BLUE CARD: $100 → 17%DALLAS AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $1k → 14%THE BLUE CARD: $100 → 17%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%YOUTH180: $913 → 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

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
AL
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$123k · 36 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
75

Total granted

$123k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+22%

Still filing today

69%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $51k · revenue +193%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +17%
  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • V
    VARIOUS
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • VA
    VOGEL ALCOVE
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +22%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -21%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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8
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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9
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
10
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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12
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Good Charities; the most unlike its peers is All About Rabbits Rescue Inc. 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

97 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. 97 of the 157 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/97
Grantees still filing
75/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas Women's Foundation: $101,100 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationVARIOUS: $40,453 · OtherVARIOUSIndividual grant recipient: $20,845 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAFLOUVRE: $10,000 · Other+101 more: $87,260 · Other+101 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $70,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATI…COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION…+3 more: $2,771 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $51,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS…DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY: $2,255 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $14,370 · Arts & Culture+18 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG: $16,199 · EducationBOOK DRIVE FOR KIDS: $825 · Education+5 more: $2,113 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,250 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,091 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,575 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,050 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $1,040 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $550 · InternationalCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND: $800 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $1,563 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC: $1,550 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $1,100 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $712 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $700 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION FISHERIES INC: $500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $475 · EnvironmentAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $300 · Environment+3 more: $553 · Environment
Other$259,658Philanthropy$92,771Arts & Culture$67,625Education$19,137International$14,556Recreation & Sports$9,300Environment$7,953

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 budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $101,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $51,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $16,199 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $2,418 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $2,406 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY: $2,255 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,091 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $2,045 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS BACH SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank: $1,601 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $1,563 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC: $1,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAFT GUILD OF DALLAS INC ATTN LINDA LUBINSKY PRESIDENT: $1,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budget5 LOAVES FOOD PANTRY: $1,309 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOTOS FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDallas Area Rape Crisis Center: $1,230 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES: $1,086 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAGAPE RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS WIND SYMPHONY: $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER SINGERS INC: $1,023 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH 180 INC: $913 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOOK DRIVE FOR KIDS: $825 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: $788 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPocket Theatre Inc: $788 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAGAPE CLINIC: $788 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $712 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $575 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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…United Way of Metropo…The Dallas FoundationThe Addy FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Hoblitzelle FoundationHillcrest FoundationKline Family Foundati…The Perot FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Celanese Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX39.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Kline Family Foundation · The Perot Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Celanese 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 Rohan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rohan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 157 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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