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The Rollins Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$59kReligion$19kHuman Services$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kHealth$1kPhilanthropy$1kFood & Nutrition$500
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLY ROSARY CHURCH$5,000
ST PAUL THEOLOGICAL CENTER$3,500
CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,000
HOLY ROSARY ACADEMY$1,000
HOLY ROSARY ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$500
ST LUKE CATHOLIC CHURCH$300
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LABOUR'E SOCIETY: $1k → 6%POPE JOHN PAUL II PREP SCHOOL: $6k → 8%DAYSPRING ACADEMY: $300 → 9%ST LUKE'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $400 → 9%CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH: $1k → 14%ST PAUL THEOLOGICAL CENTER: $4k → 19%COMEBACK COOLERS BENEFIT FUND: $1k → 16%MIRACLE FLIGHTS: $1k → 13%MELISSA MORRIS CHILDRENS FUND: $1k → 18%POPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 8%ST LUKE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $300 → 9%GOODLETTSVILLE CHURCH OF CHRIST: $300 → 14%ST PAUL THEOLOGICAL CENTER: $4k → 19%COMEBACK COOLERS: $500 → 16%POPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 8%MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%ST CECILIA ACADEMY: $7k → 14%FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%POPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 8%HOLY ROSARY ACADEMY: $8k → 14%ST PAUL CENTER: $1k → 19%POPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 8%HOLY ROSARY ACADEMY: $5k → 14%POPE JOHN PAUL II PREP SCHOOL: $3k → 8%HOLY ROSARY CHURCH: $5k → 14%POPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 8%HOLY ROSARY ACADEMY: $4k → 14%HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2k → 14%CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE: $1k → 14%HOLY ROSARY ACADEMY: $1k → 14%CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE: $1k → 14%HOLY ROSARY ACADEMY: $1k → 14%HOLY ROSARY CHURCH: $500 → 14%ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE: $500 → 14%HOLY ROSARY ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $500 → 14%KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS #4972: $375 → 14%KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS #4972: $375 → 14%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 7 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$56k
$26k

Still filing today

0%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • HR
    HOLY ROSARY ACADEMY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $19k
  • PJ
    POPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $14k
  • PJ
    POPE JOHN PAUL II PREP SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k

Funded once

  • MT
    MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SC
    ST CECILIA ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • HR
    HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY ROSARY ACADEMY: $18,975 · OtherHOLY ROSARY ACADEMYPOPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $13,500 · OtherPOPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOLMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYPOPE JOHN PAUL II PREP SCHOOL: $8,100 · OtherPOPE JOHN PAUL II PREP SCHOOLST PAUL THEOLOGICAL CENTER: $7,000 · OtherST PAUL THEOLOGICAL CENTERST CECILIA ACADEMY: $6,500 · OtherST CECILIA ACADEMYHOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5,500 · OtherHOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH+13 more: $12,050 · Other+13 moreTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $1,000 · EducationCOMEBACK COOLERS: $500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$81,625Philanthropy$1,000Education$1,000Public Safety & Disaster$500

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 budgetTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMEBACK COOLERS: $500 over 1y, 0.7% 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 THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds COMEBACK COOLERS ↗

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 23 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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