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The Roucher Foundation at a glance

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The Roucher Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27k
Granted FY2023
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Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Roucher Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federation Of Sarasota-Manatee Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$88kArts & Culture$2kInternational$2kReligion$1kEducation$1kCivil Rights$950Science & Tech$200Housing & Shelter$100Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$27,485
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE$27,485
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $500 → 8%NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER: $100 → 12%SIMON WEISENTHAL: $250 → 14%ADOVAH: $72 → 17%US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $100 → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE: $27k → 9%FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $1k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100 → 13%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $250 → 18%HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION: $500 → 16%FRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDA: $100 → 8%SIMON WEISENTHAL: $250 → 14%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $300 → 17%THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: $200 → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE: $10k → 9%FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $1k → 12%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE: $10k → 9%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $100 → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE: $10k → 9%FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA: $540 → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE: $10k → 9%HADASSAH: $100 → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE: $10k → 9%HIDDUSH: $500 → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE: $10k → 9%WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM: $200 → 17%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $200 → 9%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $200 → 17%JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL: $100 → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $100 → 17%UNITED WAY: $150 → 9%HERSHORIN SCHIFF COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $600 → 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $250 → 9%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

NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
FL
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
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.

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
American Council for World Jewry Inc

Founded so jews, worldwide, can join together in partnership, ensuring our common good and coolective survival. the council acts in the belief that the key to successfully countering threats against the jewish people and the state if…

Civil Rights
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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
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The Jerusalem Connection
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Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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American Jewish Congress Inc

Committed to the preservation and extension of the democratic way of life and to the unity creative survival of the jewish people throughout the world. it seeks to unite for the attainment of these goals all american jews similarly…

International
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Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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Sherit Isroel
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University of Judaism Foundation
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Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
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Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

18 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. 18 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $87,485 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INCFRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC: $540 · OtherHIDDUSH: $500 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $250 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $200 · OtherISRAEL RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER: $200 · OtherTHE WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM LTD: $200 · OtherUNITED WAY: $150 · Other+4 more: $372 · OtherFLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $100 · Arts & CultureHERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC: $600 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $500 · EducationThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $200 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: $200 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $150 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $100 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $100 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $300 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $200 · Civil RightsSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $250 · Crime & LegalWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $100 · Religion
Philanthropy$87,485Other$3,412Arts & Culture$2,200Education$1,100International$850Civil Rights$500Crime & Legal$250Religion$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $87,485 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC: $540 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM: $100 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.

Gulf Coast Community …Jewish Communal FundFidelity Investments …
Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Roucher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roucher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Florida Holocaust Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report 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
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.

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 29 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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