How much does The Roller-Bottimore Foundation give?

The Roller-Bottimore Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $677,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Roller-Bottimore Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Education (17%), Environment (7%).

Who are The Roller-Bottimore Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Hampden-Sydney College ($150k), Virginia Historical Society ($125k), Emory & Henry University ($110k).

Does The Roller-Bottimore Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Roller-Bottimore Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Roller-Bottimore Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Roller-Bottimore Foundation based?

The Roller-Bottimore Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

The Roller-Bottimore Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$678k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 75%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $84,500
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 16; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $6.2M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations The Roller-Bottimore Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	14	$678k	79%
FY2024	12	$444k	75%
FY2023	13	$586k	92%
FY2022	7	$390k	100%
FY2021	16	$529k	100%
FY2019	11	$434k	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.7MEducation$507kEnvironment$213kHuman Services$135kReligion$125kRecreation & Sports$115kFood & Nutrition$114kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hampden-Sydney College	$150,000	1	0%
Virginia Historical Society	$125,000	2	0%
Emory & Henry University	$109,500	2	0%
The Menokin Foundation	$100,000	2	4%
Friends of Hollywood Cemetery	$100,000	2	8%
The Rosewell Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	27%
Friends of the James River Park	$100,000	1	17%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation	$75,000	2	0%
Science Museum of Virginia Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	2%
Maymont Foundation	$75,000	1	1%

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All grantees of The Roller-Bottimore Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hampden-Sydney College	$150,000	1	0%
Virginia Historical Society	$125,000	2	0%
Emory & Henry University	$109,500	2	0%
The Menokin Foundation	$100,000	2	4%
Friends of Hollywood Cemetery	$100,000	2	8%
The Rosewell Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	27%
Friends of the James River Park	$100,000	1	17%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation	$75,000	2	0%
Science Museum of Virginia Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	2%
Maymont Foundation	$75,000	1	1%
Elk Hill Farm Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Southampton County Historical Society	$73,750	1	15%
St John's Church Foundation	$65,000	2	4%
Moore Street School Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
James River Association	$50,000	1	1%
The Byrd Theatre Foundation	$50,000	1	5%
The Valentine Museum	$50,000	1	1%
Historic Richmond Foundation	$50,000	1	4%
The Lyric Council Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
St Andrew's School	$50,000	1	n/a
Bruton Parish Church	$50,000	1	n/a
Petersburg Area Art League	$45,000	1	n/a
Sweet Briar Institute	$42,200	1	0%
Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc	$35,000	1	1%
Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation	$35,000	1	2%
St Joseph's Villa	$35,000	1	0%
Fairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc	$32,000	1	6%
The Avenel Foundation Inc	$30,000	1	21%
Virginia Repertory Theatre	$25,000	1	0%
Washington Heritage Museums	$25,000	1	1%
The Mariners' Museum	$25,000	1	n/a
The Garden Club of Virginia Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Venture Richmond Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Petersburg Preservation Task Force	$25,000	1	14%
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart	$25,000	1	n/a
Roanoke College	$25,000	1	0%
The Corporation for Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest	$25,000	1	1%
Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic	$25,000	1	0%
Library of Virginia Foundation	$25,000	1	3%
Association for the Preservation of Va Antiquities	$25,000	1	0%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States	$23,000	1	0%
Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation Inc	$21,442	1	2%
Virginia War Memorial Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
William & Mary Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Foundation for Historic Christ Church Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Morven Park Inc	$15,000	1	4%
The Clifton Institute Inc	$12,700	1	2%
The John Marshall Foundation	$10,000	1	5%
Better Housing Coalition	$10,000	1	0%
Goochland County Historical Society	$2,000	1	2%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($729k), not named here.

The Roller-Bottimore Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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 Mary Morton Parsons FoundationVA46.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole · Chrisman Family Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family 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.

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About The Roller-Bottimore Foundation

How much does The Roller-Bottimore Foundation give?: The Roller-Bottimore Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $677,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Roller-Bottimore Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Education (17%), Environment (7%).
Who are The Roller-Bottimore Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Hampden-Sydney College ($150k), Virginia Historical Society ($125k), Emory & Henry University ($110k).
Does The Roller-Bottimore Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Roller-Bottimore Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Roller-Bottimore Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Roller-Bottimore Foundation based?: The Roller-Bottimore Foundation is based in TX.