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The Roller-Bottimore Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$678k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.7MEducation$507kEnvironment$213kHuman Services$135kReligion$125kRecreation & Sports$115kFood & Nutrition$114kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $545k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY$84,500
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION$75,000
NATIONAL SOC OF COLONIAL DAMES OF VA$75,000
BRANCH MUSEUM OF DESIGN$75,000
FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY$75,000
MEMORIAL FDN OF THE GERMANNA$60,000
THE MENOKIN FOUNDATION$50,000
LYRIC COUNCIL INC$50,000
VENTURE RICHMOND INC$25,000
MARINERS' MUSEUM$25,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$23,000
WILLIAM & MARY FOUNDATION$20,000
FOUNDATION FOR HISTORIC CHRIST CHURCH$20,000
VIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $35k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$680k · 7 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
48

Total granted

$680k
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+35%

Still filing today

86%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • EH
    EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +6%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY
    2× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +54%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $65k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +59%
  • TR
    THE ROSEWELL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -90% · 27% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE JAMES RIVER PARKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Mount Vernon Preservation Society
Arts & Culture
2
Tudor Place Foundation Inc

Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…

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3
The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation
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4
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
5
Isle of Wight County Museum Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.

Environment
7
American Civil War Museum Collection

The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.

Arts & Culture
8
The Virginia Council

To preserve Virginias history and craft the most prosperous future for all of its citizens.

Education
9
The South Carolina Historical Society

The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.

Arts & Culture
10
The Glass-Glen Burnie Museum Inc

The mission of the museum of the shenandoah valley (msv) is to preserve and enrich the cultural life and heritage of the shenandoah valley. serving the region as a cultural site, the msv fulfills its mission by presenting exhibitions;…

Arts & Culture
11
Saint Peters Landmark Preservation Trust
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12
Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society

History is not the past; it is the story we tell about the past. every person in albemarle county and the city of charlottesville has a unique and powerful story to tell. through collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of our…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Southampton County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr17%12%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr15%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr15%49%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
13%
874/6,839

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 66 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION — $105,000 · OtherMOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATIONBRANCH MUSEUM OF DESIGN — $75,000 · OtherBRANCH MUSEUM OF DESIGNYWCA — $75,000 · OtherYWCAELK HILL FARM INC — $75,000 · OtherELK HILL FARM INCNATIONAL SOC OF COLONIAL DAMES OF VA — $75,000 · OtherNATIONAL SOC OF COLONIAL DAMES OF VAST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION — $65,000 · OtherST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL FDN OF THE GERMANNA — $60,000 · OtherMEMORIAL FDN OF THE GERMANNAWOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY — $50,000 · OtherBRANCH MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE — $50,000 · OtherMOORE STREET SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherHISTORIC CHRIST CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherBruton Parish Church — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $38,700 · Other+14 more — $280,000 · Other+14 moreVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $125,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETYTHE ROSEWELL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROSEWELL FOUNDATION INCColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $75,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg FoundationSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION …MAYMONT FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Arts & CultureMAYMONT FOUNDATIONSOUTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $73,750 · Arts & CultureSOUTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYTHE LYRIC COUNCIL INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Byrd Theatre Foundation — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePETERSBURG AREA ART LEAGUE — $45,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN REDISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $241,442 · Arts & Culture+10 moreHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $150,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY C…EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY — $109,500 · EducationEMORY & HENRY UN…St Andrew's School — $50,000 · EducationSt Andrew's Scho…SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $42,200 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INST…Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc — $35,000 · EducationCristo Rey Richm…ROANOKE COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGELIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationLIBRARY OF VIRGI…William & Mary Foundation — $20,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY — $100,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF…FRIENDS OF THE JAMES RIVER PARK — $100,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF…JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · EnvironmentJAMES RIVE…THE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN…THE MENOKIN FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyST JOSEPH'S VILLA — $35,000 · Human ServicesMORVEN PARK INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesVENTURE RICHMOND INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementBETTER HOUSING COALITION — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,098,700Arts & Culture$1,045,192Education$456,700Environment$275,000Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$50,000Community Improvement$25,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY — $109,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROSEWELL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE MENOKIN FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY — $100,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE JAMES RIVER PARK — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $73,750 over 1y, 15% of budgetST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Byrd Theatre Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $42,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN REDISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc — $32,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE AVENEL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVENTURE RICHMOND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON HERITAGE MUSEUMS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPETERSBURG PRESERVATION TASK FORCE — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATRICK HENRY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $21,442 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORVEN PARK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC — $12,700 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBETTER HOUSING COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOCHLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Mary Morton Parso…The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Robert G Cabell III a…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Virginia Sargeant Rey…Tesco FoundationHerndon FoundationWindsor Fdn Trust Uw …Chrisman Family Found…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…The Pauley Family Fou…
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

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 Roller-Bottimore 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Roller-Bottimore Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Roller-Bottimore Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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