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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.

$18k
Granted FY2019
21
Grants FY2019
8
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

International$11kHealth$7kReligion$7kHuman Services$4kCivil Rights$3kScience & Tech$2kCrime & Legal$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2019 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY OF AMHERST$3,400
SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION$1,000
GLOBAL GIVING$1,000
350ORG$1,000
AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION$1,000
PROJECT LIFELINE$1,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$1,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000
TREEHOUSE ADOPTION COMMUNITY$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,000
RAICES$1,000
EVIDENCE ACTION$1,000
CANCER CONNECTION$500
AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER$500
ABORTION RIGHTS FUND OF WESTERN MASS$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Village Chicago: $1k → 14%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER: $500 → 12%AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER: $500 → 12%Pioneer Valley Workers Center: $200 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
DC
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21k · 9 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$21k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+84%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +81%
  • CC
    CANCER CONNECTION INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +20%
  • SC
    SURVIVAL CENTERS INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +215%

Funded once

  • UF
    USA for UNHCR
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +12%
  • PC
    PAWS CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +163%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
World Resources Institute

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…

International
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
6
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
7
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
8
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
9
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
10
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
12
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY OF AMHERST INC: $6,800 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY OF AMHERST INCPlanned Parenthood: $5,000 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodUSA for UNHCR: $3,000 · OtherUSA for UNHCRTREEHOUSE ADOPTION COMMUNITY: $1,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 · OtherFeeding America: $1,000 · OtherREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $1,000 · Other+7 more: $2,322 · Other+7 moreEVIDENCE ACTION: $2,000 · InternationalEVIDENCE ACTIONInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue …THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNE…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIE…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATI…CANCER CONNECTION INC: $1,000 · HealthCANCER CO…The Against Malaria Foundation: $1,000 · HealthThe Again…The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 · HealthThe Susan…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 · HealthPARTNERS …TAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $200 · HealthTAPESTRY …GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIREC…SURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSURVIVAL …LINCOLN PARK VILLAGE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesLINCOLN P…PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $700 · Human ServicesPIONEER V…PROJECT LIFELINE: $2,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationPAWS CHICAGO: $1,500 · Animals350ORG: $1,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $500 · Environment
Other$21,122International$8,000Health$3,700Human Services$3,700Education$2,500Animals$1,500Environment$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CONNECTION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKARUNA CENTER FOR PEACEBUILDING INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Beveridge Family …National Philanthropi…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Roth Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roth Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Roth Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Roth Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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