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The Romney Foundation for Children at a glance

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The Romney Foundation for Children

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$801k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.8MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.3MInternational$600kPhilanthropy$305kRecreation & Sports$111kEmployment$90kPublic Benefit$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY$400,000
CHARITYVISION$200,000
COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE BUDGET$50,000
RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$40,000
BELMONT HILL SCHOOL$40,000
INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE$30,000
BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK$10,000
CRANBROOK SCHOOLS$10,000
SALT LAKE CHAMBER FOUNDATION$10,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$10,000
LINDA NOLEN LEARNING CENTER$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $5k → 10%CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 13%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $20k → 8%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $10k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $30k → 8%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $30k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%NEW NEIGHBOR RELIEF: $25k → 11%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $3k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MI
MA
NV
IA
PA
CA
UT
MD
DC
AL
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 18 repeat orgs$567k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
24

Total granted

$5.2M
$497k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-15%
+14%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BH
    BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +141%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +16%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • US
    Utah Sports Commission Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +159%
  • CO
    CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • WS
    WATERFORD SCHOOL JAMES BALDWIN SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
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
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
2
Intermountain Medical Holdings Nevada Inc

Helping people live the healthiest lives possible.

Health
3
Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical (continued on…

Science & Tech
4
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
9
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
10
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California Irvine Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New Neighbor Relief. 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

26 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. 26 of the 46 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,374,383 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM: $1,190,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAMBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $975,000 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYRADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $195,000 · Other+23 more: $483,500 · Other+23 moreCharityVision International: $800,000 · PhilanthropyCharityVision Int…The Community Foundation of Utah: $100,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community Fou…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $145,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $35,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationBridges from School to Work Inc: $90,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human ServicesPeace House Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW NEIGHBOR RELIEF: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $13,000 · Human ServicesDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $120,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthUtah Sports Commission Foundation: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,217,883Philanthropy$905,000Education$275,000Human Services$188,000Health$180,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Housing & 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 budgetCharityVision International: $800,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $145,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Sports Commission Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBridges from School to Work Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace House Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW NEIGHBOR RELIEF: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMT SOLEDAD MEMORIAL ASSOC INC DBA MT SOLEDAD NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalt Lake Chamber Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLARRY H MILLER CHARITIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INVICTUS FUND NV: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRising Star Outreach Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA WOMAN'S NATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND DISABLED SPORTS: $1,000 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 CharityVision International ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Utah Sports Commission Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
  • Who funds Bridges from School to Work Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW NEIGHBOR RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds MT SOLEDAD MEMORIAL ASSOC INC DBA MT SOLEDAD NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Chamber Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LARRY H MILLER CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds THE INVICTUS FUND NV ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗

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 Huntsman Foundati…Beesley Family Founda…Larry H Miller and Ga…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
The Huntsman FoundationUT15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Huntsman Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Romney Foundation for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Romney Foundation for Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Bridges from School to Work Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 46 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home