· Private foundation
The Roney Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| HILLSDALE BARNEY CHARTER SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION | $10,200 |
| SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,200 |
| ELEVATE SAVANNAH | $5,000 |
| DIGNITY MOVES | $5,000 |
| EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CASA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CAMERATA PACIFICA | $3,000 |
| SAVANNAH REPERTORY THEATRE | $2,500 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $2,500 |
| OUR LADY OF GRACE | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TSTHE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +27%
- SRSavannah Repertory Theatre4× · 2021–2024 · $51k · revenue +46%
- SPSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +75%
- 2C200 CLUB OF COASTAL EMPIREone grant, 2022 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
To provide orchestral music performances, educational services, and arts advocacy programs to the greater silicon valley region.
To provide a vibrant performing arts center that generates and promotes excellence in the performing arts and enhances the quality of life in the region by offering outstanding and diverse entertainment, including events of cultural and…
To bring high quality classical musicians from around the globe to the santa barbara area to perform orchestral, vocal, solo instrumental, and chamber concerts.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
The san francisco symphony exists to inspire and serve audiences and communities throughout the bay area and the world through the power of musical performance.
The san antonio symphony's mission is to delight, engage, and inspire the entire community through excellent performance, education, and outreach
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Savannah Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds CAMERATA PACIFICA ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE SAVANNAH ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds GRIP TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRISON YOGA SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds JODI HOUSE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · The Hodge Foundation Inc · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation · Colonial Foundation Inc · James S Bower Foundation · The Corwin D Denney 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 Roney Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Community Solutions Inc — 55% of income from government
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.
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