· Private foundation
The Rolander Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENGAGD YOUTH PROGRAM | $31,900 |
| COMMUNITY IN SCHOOLS OF CHATHAM COUNTY | $20,000 |
| PETEY GREENE PRISONER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| ST MICHAELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CITY KIDS WILDERNESS PROJECT | $20,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| HELENE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CORE | $15,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE | $10,000 |
| CORA - SNAP FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| THE UNITED WAY ASHEVILLE & BUNCAOMBE | $10,000 |
| EVERGREEN COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA | $9,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY HEALTH | $9,000 |
| NC ARTS IN ACTION | $9,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
61 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- CKCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +45%
The Petey Greene Program Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +110%
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHATHAM COUNTY7× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNITED WAY - UNITY RESOURCE TEAMone grant, 2021 · $35k
- SMST MICHAELSone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TATHURSTON ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CENTER UNC SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safechild and the most unlike its peers is Core. 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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 101 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 City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc ↗
- Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHATHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Child and Family Health Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Helene Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds VOICES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CORE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FIGS OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Curtis Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Truist Foundation 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 Rolander Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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.
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