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The Rountree Family Foundation at a glance

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The Rountree Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$62k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$366kCommunity Improvement$65kReligion$20kEducation$19kHealth$6kRecreation & Sports$5kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$243k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEADERSHIP PERIMETER$14,000
BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM$10,024
ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER$10,000
BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH$6,000
CITY SPRINGS THEATER COMPANY$5,000
RIGHT FROM THE HEART MINISTRIES$5,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$5,000
PRECEPT$4,000
SANTE FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FES$2,500
GEORGIA O'KEEFE MUSEUM$250
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $10k → 14%TRI DELTA: $250 → 14%SANTE FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FES: $3k → 12%REPERTORY THEATRE SEASIDE FL: $250 → 11%RIGHT FROM THE HEART MINISTRIES: $5k → 8%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $53k → 10%LEADERSHIP SANDY SPRINGS: $25k → 13%BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $6k → 13%ADDICTION ALLIANCE OF GEORGIA: $5k → 14%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $10k → 27%HISTORY FLIGHT: $500 → 15%GEORGIA O'KEEFE MUSEUM: $250 → 12%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $30k → 10%LEADERSHIP PERIMETER: $14k → 13%THE GEORGIA BULLDOG CLUB: $5k → 27%GEORGIA O'KEEFE MUSEUM: $250 → 12%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $27k → 10%LEADERSHIP SANDY SPRINGS: $10k → 13%UGA FOUNDATION: $4k → 27%GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $250 → 12%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $25k → 10%LEADERSHIP PERIMETER: $8k → 13%GEORGIA O'KEEFE MUSEUM: $250 → 12%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $11k → 10%LEADERSHIP SANDY SPRINGS: $4k → 13%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $11k → 10%LEADERSHIP SANDY SPRINGS: $4k → 13%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $10k → 10%CITY SPRINGS THEATER COMPANY: $5k → 13%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $10k → 10%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $51k → 13%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $5k → 10%CITY SPRINGS THEATER COMPANY: $5k → 13%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $5k → 10%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $50k → 13%TELLUS SCIENCE MUSEUM: $2k → 10%CITY SPRINGS THEATER COMPANY: $5k → 13%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $1k → 10%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $10k → 13%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $1k → 10%CITY SPRINGS THEATER COMPANY: $5k → 13%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $400 → 10%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $10k → 13%CITY SPRINGS THEATER COMPANY: $5k → 13%ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: $10k → 13%CITY SPRINGS THEATER COMPANY: $4k → 13%FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 13%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$416k · 6 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +141% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$416k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+141%
+62%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationReligionPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • AH
    ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $131k · revenue +141%
  • LP
    LEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +9%
  • CS
    City Springs Theatre
    6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +290%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • AM
    AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -45%
  • AA
    ADDICTION ALLIANCE OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Georgia Historical Society

Georgia Historical Society (GHS) is the premier independent statewide institution responsible for collecting, examining, and teaching Georgia history. GHS houses the oldest and most distinguished collection of materials related exclusively…

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2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Fernbank Inc

Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…

Arts & Culture
4
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
5
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
8
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.

Education
9
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
11
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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12
Forsyth Country Day School Inc

Forsyth Country Day School is a private, college preparatory independent school for preschool through high school. Students benefit from a challenging academic curriculum, fine and performing arts, competitive athletics, and a wide…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autry Museum of the American West; the most unlike its peers is Leadership Perimeter Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $189,479 · OtherBOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUMUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $10,000 · Other+10 more: $27,325 · Other+10 moreATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $130,933 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCCity Springs Theatre: $29,000 · Arts & CultureCity Springs TheatreAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureLEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC: $65,178 · PhilanthropyLEADERSHIP PERI…RIGHT FROM THE HEART MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · ReligionPrecept: $4,000 · ReligionFELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationCHILDRENS VOLUNTEER HEALTH NETWORK INC: $600 · Health
Other$226,804Arts & Culture$173,433Philanthropy$65,178Religion$9,000Education$9,000Health$600

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 budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $130,933 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC: $65,178 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetCity Springs Theatre: $29,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIGHT FROM THE HEART MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS VOLUNTEER HEALTH NETWORK INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC ↗
  • Who funds City Springs Theatre ↗
  • Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
  • Who funds RIGHT FROM THE HEART MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Precept ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS VOLUNTEER HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Rountree Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rountree Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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