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The Roth Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY OF AMHERST | $3,400 |
| 350ORG | $1,000 |
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,000 |
| PROJECT LIFELINE | $1,000 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TREEHOUSE ADOPTION COMMUNITY | $1,000 |
| RAICES | $1,000 |
| EVIDENCE ACTION | $1,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT | $500 |
| CANCER CONNECTION | $500 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $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 (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +81%
- CCCANCER CONNECTION INC2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +20%
- SCSURVIVAL CENTERS INC2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +215%
Funded once
- UFUSA for UNHCRone grant, 2017 · $3k
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +12%- PCPAWS CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +163%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds KARUNA CENTER FOR PEACEBUILDING INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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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