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The Royer Family Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of THE ROYER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $783k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REFUGE PLACE INTERNATIONAL | $200,000 |
| FAITH HEALING DEVELOPMNT ORG | $151,330 |
| CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN | $135,000 |
| SIERRA LEONE MISSION & DEVELOPMENT | $125,000 |
| FOUND IN TRANSLATION | $100,000 |
| RURAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIO | $72,000 |
| AFCAIDS | $38,000 |
| HORIZONS PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA | $24,500 |
| LGBT ASYLUM TASK FORCE | $15,000 |
| CHESTNUT HOUSING | $10,000 |
| THE CENTER AT HAMPTON HOUSE | $10,000 |
| HOPE WALKS | $7,000 |
| NEW COMMUNITY PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 US giving — 54% of grant dollars ($2.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 46% that went abroad ($1.8M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Beyond the US — 46% of all-years giving ($1.8M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Royer 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.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k 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
- FIFound in Translation Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $474k · revenue +144%
- NCNew Community Project3× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +251%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES3× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GTGATHERING TOGETHER INCone grant, 2017 · $55k
- SLSIERRA LEONE MISSIONS AND DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +100%
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.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
To impact community housing
Provide holistic and integrated service that address the diverse needs of vulnerable individuals and families experiencing instability as the result of domestic violence and /or homelessness.
"Lydia House" is a residential Christian women's home to be built in Gbarnga, Liberia (West Africa) under the local leadership of our partners, Pastors Owen and Viola Dunbar. Lydia House will offer provision, medical care, and vocational…
To support the women in liberia who are
To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future
Seeking to put Gods love into action Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Greater Mount Airy Area Habitat for Humanity…
Development of affordable housing
The mission is to provide quailty affordable housing alternatives for the people of Plaqumine
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brethren Housing Association and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Leone Missions and Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 Found in Translation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GATHERING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds New Community Project ↗
- Who funds SIERRA LEONE MISSIONS AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER AT HAMPTON HOUSE ↗
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.
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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 Royer 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.
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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