· Private foundation
The Rolfes Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORIZON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY | $289,618 |
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 (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k 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
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC4× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +94%
- MRMARY ROSE MISSION4× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +29%
- CNCare Net4× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- NDNOTRE DAME ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $15k
- SCST CLARE OF ASSISI PARISH & SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BCBE CONCERNED INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +36%
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.
Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual. christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living, 24-hour skilled nursing…
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
The pregnancy care center empowers individuals to make life-affirming decisions through education, medical services, counseling, and compassionate care based on the ministry of jesus christ.
Counseling and assistance for unplanned pregnancy.
Community care network is a faith-based agency that empowers families to move from addiction, homelessness, and /or incarceration to a stable and independent life.
Using the ministry of jesus christ as our model, blc provides quality of life options to assist adults 55+ to remain active by maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Motivated by the love and compassion of christ and in keeping with our baptist heritage, bchs provides quality primary healthcare and behavioral healthcare to individuals in medically underserved communities.
Providing reliable, accessible, high quality medical services to the most vunerable people in our community.
Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
Pregnancy counseling
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baker Senior Center Naples Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 FAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds MARY ROSE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds BE CONCERNED INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds READ 718 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: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Butler Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Merus Foundation · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · St Elizabeth Medical Center 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 Rolfes Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.