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The Rolfes Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rolfes Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$290k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$290kEducation$32kYouth Development$15kHealth$14kReligion$11kFood & Nutrition$8kCivil Rights$5kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$289,618
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HORIZON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY$289,618
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 10%BE CONCERNED: $2k → 11%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.
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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65k · 14 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$65k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+38%

Still filing today

36%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +94%
  • MR
    MARY ROSE MISSION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +29%
  • CN
    Care Net
    4× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • ND
    NOTRE DAME ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • SC
    ST CLARE OF ASSISI PARISH & SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • BC
    BE CONCERNED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +36%
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
Christian Care Communities Inc

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…

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2
Life Choice Center

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…

Health
3
Pregnancy Care Center

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.

Human Services
4
Care Net Pregnancy Center of Central Texas

Counseling and assistance for unplanned pregnancy.

Health
5
Community Care Network Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Baptist Convalescent Center Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Baptist Community Health Services Inc

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.

Health
8
Christ Clinic

Providing reliable, accessible, high quality medical services to the most vunerable people in our community.

Health
9
Kentucky Senior Citizens Apartments Inc

Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.

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10
Christian Care Surprise Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Housing & Shelter
11
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
12
Care Net Center of Greater Orleans

Pregnancy counseling

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 27 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HORIZON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $289,618 · OtherHORIZON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN KENTUCKYNOTRE DAME ACADEMY: $15,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $13,000 · Other+16 more: $34,620 · Other+16 moreFAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC: $13,500 · HealthMARY ROSE MISSION: $7,500 · ReligionCare Net: $4,500 · Civil RightsBE CONCERNED INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesEmergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationREAD 718 INC: $250 · Education
Other$352,238Health$13,500Religion$7,500Civil Rights$4,500Human Services$3,000Housing & Shelter$1,500Education$1,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMARY ROSE MISSION: $7,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCare Net: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBE CONCERNED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD 718 INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 UNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds READ 718 INC ↗

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.

Johnson Charitable Gi…The Greater Cincinnat…The Butler FoundationDuke Energy FoundationHorizon Community Fun…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Merus FoundationGeorge and Mary Jo Bu…The Fischer Family Fo…The R C Durr Foundati…St Elizabeth Medical …
Johnson Charitable Gift FundOH19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rolfes Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rolfes Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 27 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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