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The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation

The corporation is organized & shall be operated exclusively for charitable, religious, educational & scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the siouxland chamber foundation, so long as it remains a qualified organization & so long as its…

$6.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.9MEducation$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MYouth Development$1.4MArts & Culture$375kHousing & Shelter$350kHealth$255kEmployment$100kOther$5.9M
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.9M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$30k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SIOUXLAND INC$1,000,000
BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
CAMP HIGH HOPES$500,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC$375,000
SIOUXLAND YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$175,000
THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INC$175,000
HOPE STREET OF SIOUXLAND$175,000
THE CRITTENTON CENTER$175,000
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SIOUX CITY$175,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY$175,000
MARY J TREGLIA COMMUNITY HOUSE$175,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC$175,000
SANFORD CENTER$175,000
NORM WAITT SR YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$150,000
SKY RANCH BEHAVIORAL SERVICES$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NORM WAITT SR YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $150k → 12%THE CRITTENTON CENTER: $175k → 13%SIOUXLAND FOSTER CLOSET: $50k → 13%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $500k → 13%MARY J TREGLIA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $175k → 13%MID-STEP SERVICES INC: $100k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 79% of The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.0M · 8 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$8.0M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+1%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SF
    STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +154% · 76% of their budget
  • SC
    SIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +118% · 77% of their budget
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +44% · 71% of their budget

Funded once

  • TT
    TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $2.5M
  • SE
    SIOUXLAND EXPO CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +432%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Siouxland Chamber of Commerce

Improve the quality of the siouxland area

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2
Siouxland Community Foundation

The siouxland community foundation is a trusted organization that connects people who care with causes that matter by providing a means to receive gifts and distribute grants in response to community needs.

Philanthropy
3
Sioux City Lewis & Clark Association
Arts & Culture
4
Sioux Falls Environmental Access Inc
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5
Sioux City Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau

The mission of the sioux city regional convention center and visitors bureau is to promote tourism and the hospitality industry in the greater siouxland area.

Community Improvement
6
Sioux City Housing Trust Fund Inc

To act as the local governing board of sioux city housing trust fund by collecting and disbursing revenue for the purpose of encouraging the development and redevelopment of affordable housing for sioux city's income qualified residents.

Housing & Shelter
7
Sioux Falls Cares Inc

To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.

Philanthropy
8
The Siouxland Initiative

To promote economic growth in the tri-state siouxland area

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9
Siouxland Youth for Christ

To provide youth ministry services to youth in the siouxland area.

Youth Development
10
Siouxland Habitat for Humanity

To provide affordable housing for low-income families

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11
St Francis House of Sioux Falls

Ecumenical not-for-profit transitional living facility for the homeless in sioux falls, south dakota. purpose is to offer hospitality, fellowship and support to those who have nowhere to sleep.

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12
Siouxland Community Health Foundation

The foundation provides support for community health. it helps eliminate barriers and improves the health of the community.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sioux City Public School Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Plywood Trail Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr10%11%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr13%14%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr26%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr10%4%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr13%10%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr26%54%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
7%
33/454

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.

05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 42 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
15/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BISHOP HEELAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — $2,505,000 · OtherBISHOP HEELAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLSTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM — $2,500,000 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM+16 more — $1,580,000 · Other+16 moreSTOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC — $1,863,320 · Food & NutritionSTOP FOODBORN…BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 · EducationBRIAR CLIFF U…TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $625,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FO…CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF SIOUX CITY — $100,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHO…+1 more — $50,000 · EducationSIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,280,000 · Recreation & SportsSIOUX CITY P…SIOUXLAND YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $175,000 · Recreation & SportsSIOUXLAND YO…THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SIOUX CITY — $175,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE MIRACLE …+2 more — $100,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 moreCAMP HIGH HOPES — $500,000 · Human ServicesCAMP HIGH H…SIOUXLAND TANZANIA EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL MINISTRIES — $300,000 · Human ServicesSIOUXLAND T…MARY J TREGLIA COMMUNITY HOUSE — $175,000 · Human ServicesMARY J TREG…THE CRITTENTON CENTER — $175,000 · Human ServicesTHE CRITTEN…NORM WAITT SR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (2221) — $150,000 · Human ServicesNORM WAITT …MID-STEP SERVICES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesMID-STEP SE…THE GOSPEL MISSION — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE GOSPEL …+2 more — $100,000 · Human Services+2 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC — $1,250,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCO…THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureSIOUXLAND EXPO CENTER — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $100,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,585,000Food & Nutrition$1,863,320Education$1,775,000Recreation & Sports$1,730,000Human Services$1,600,000Youth Development$1,425,000Arts & Culture$375,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC — $1,863,320 over 6y, 76% of budgetSIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,280,000 over 3y, 77% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC — $1,250,000 over 2y, 71% of budgetBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $625,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP HIGH HOPES — $500,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSIOUXLAND TANZANIA EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL MINISTRIES — $300,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetSIOUXLAND YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $175,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSANFORD CENTER — $175,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMARY J TREGLIA COMMUNITY HOUSE — $175,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INC — $175,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE CRITTENTON CENTER — $175,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $175,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY — $175,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SIOUX CITY — $175,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetHOPE STREET OF SIOUXLAND — $175,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetNORM WAITT SR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (2221) — $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMID-STEP SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIOUXLAND CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSKY RANCH BEHAVIORAL SERVICES — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSIOUXLAND EXPO CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE GOSPEL MISSION — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SIOUX CITY IOWA — $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWA — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER - SIOUX CITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSPECIAL TROOPERS ADAPTIVE RIDING SCHOOL RIDING SCHOOL STARS — $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetLILA MAE'S HOUSE — $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE ART CENTER ASSOCIATION OF SIOUX CITY — $50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSIOUXLAND FOSTER CLOSET — $50,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetPLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetSIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIOUXLAND YOUTH GOLF ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSIOUX CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSIOUXLAND CARES ABOUT SUBSTANCE ABUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budget
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.

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.

Missouri River Histor…The Chesterman Family…Siouxland Community F…United Way of Siouxla…Food Bank of Siouxlan…Berenstein Family Fou…Michael & Marjory Ben…Peterson Family Found…Waitt FoundationHelios FoundationGleeson Family Founda…Greenberg Foundation
Missouri River Historical Development IncIA69.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Missouri River Historical Development Inc · The Chesterman Family Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · United Way of Siouxland Inc · Food Bank of Siouxland Inc · Berenstein Family Foundation · Michael & Marjory Bennett Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation · Waitt Foundation · Helios Foundation · Gleeson Family Foundation · Greenberg 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 Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

    Source object · view filing

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