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The Roller-Bottimore Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NATIONAL SOC OF COLONIAL DAMES OF VA$75,000
BRANCH MUSEUM OF DESIGN$75,000
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION$75,000
FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY$75,000
MEMORIAL FDN OF THE GERMANNA$60,000
LYRIC COUNCIL INC$50,000
THE MENOKIN FOUNDATION$50,000
MARINERS' MUSEUM$25,000
VENTURE RICHMOND INC$25,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$23,000
FOUNDATION FOR HISTORIC CHRIST CHURCH$20,000
WILLIAM & MARY FOUNDATION$20,000
VIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$20,000
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 (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. Its 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
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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 66 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $105,000 · OtherMOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATIONNATIONAL SOC OF COLONIAL DAMES OF VA: $75,000 · OtherNATIONAL SOC OF COLONIAL DAMES OF VAELK HILL FARM INC: $75,000 · OtherELK HILL FARM INCBRANCH MUSEUM OF DESIGN: $75,000 · OtherBRANCH MUSEUM OF DESIGNYWCA: $75,000 · OtherYWCAST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL FDN OF THE GERMANNA: $60,000 · OtherMEMORIAL FDN OF THE GERMANNAMOORE STREET SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherBRANCH MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE: $50,000 · OtherWOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY: $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 Byrd Theatre Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LYRIC COUNCIL INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 MENOKIN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY: $100,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTHE ROSEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 27% 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 budgetThe Byrd Theatre Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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 budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON HERITAGE MUSEUMS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVENTURE RICHMOND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPETERSBURG PRESERVATION TASK FORCE: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $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
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.

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 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

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 Roller-Bottimore Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roller-Bottimore Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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