· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 46% of all-years giving ($1.8M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Royer Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +144% since the first grant, against +100% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FIFound in Translation Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $474k · revenue +144%
- NCNew Community Project3× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +251%
- CHCHESTNUT HOUSING CORPORATION2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- GTGATHERING TOGETHER INCone grant, 2017 · $55k
- SLSIERRA LEONE MISSIONS AND DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +100%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Royer Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Royer Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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