Tennessee · Private foundation
The Roros Foundation
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.
- $419k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Roros Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $419k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $436k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $381k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $307k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $300k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $302k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $251k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $294k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Keller International | $909,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hospice Without Borders | $274,000 | 3 | 96% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $171,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Radnor Lake | $134,000 | 8 | 5% |
| The Harpeth Hall School | $102,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Achilles International Inc | $87,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Grand Central Atelier Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The New School | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Classical Charter School | $34,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Overbrook School | $34,000 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($519k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Roros Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Danner Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About The Roros Foundation
- How much does The Roros Foundation give?
- The Roros Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $418,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Roros Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (44%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Roros Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Helen Keller International ($909k), Hospice Without Borders ($274k), Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville ($171k).
- Does The Roros Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Roros Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Roros Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is The Roros Foundation based?
- The Roros Foundation is based in TN.
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