· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $149k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| ADVENTURE SCIENCE MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| INST OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE | $26,250 |
| GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER | $25,000 |
| HARPETH HALL SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| ACHILLES INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| EDWARDS PEDIATRIC MENINGITIS FD | $5,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIV SCHOOL OF NURSING | $5,000 |
| JADE PASLEY FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND | $5,000 |
| OVERBROOK SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF MIDDLE TN | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of The Roros Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL6× · 2019–2024 · $909k · revenue +36%
- MBMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +6%
- FOFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE8× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +306%
Funded once
- COCATHEDRAL OF THE INCARNATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- NCNASHVILLE CLASSIC CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Hospice Without Borders ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds INTREPID COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Roros Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roros Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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