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The Royso Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$810k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$550,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$7.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Royso Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$810k60%
FY20234$1.6M0%
FY20225$870k60%
FY20219$385k67%
FY20206$235kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.5MPhilanthropy$300kReligion$200kArts & Culture$125kYouth Development$125kRecreation & Sports$80kCrime & Legal$25kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eastside Preparatory School$2,325,00034%
The Community Library Association Inc$525,000112%
Yellow Wood Academy$100,00012%
Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc$100,00030%
Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart$90,0001n/a
St Thomas School$85,00020%
Haymakers for Hope Inc$80,00044%
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc$75,00020%
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc$60,00021%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$50,00010%
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All grantees of The Royso Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eastside Preparatory School$2,325,00034%
The Community Library Association Inc$525,000112%
Yellow Wood Academy$100,00012%
Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc$100,00030%
Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart$90,0001n/a
St Thomas School$85,00020%
Haymakers for Hope Inc$80,00044%
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc$75,00020%
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc$60,00021%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$50,00010%
University of Oregon Foundation$50,00010%
Rainier Scholars$50,00020%
Plymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries$25,00010%
Breaking Boundaries Foundation$25,00014%
Densho$25,00011%
Kieve Wavus Education Inc$20,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($225k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Royso Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEastside Preparatory School: $2,325,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc: $525,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetYellow Wood Academy: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSt Thomas School: $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHaymakers for Hope Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSeattle Symphony Orchestra Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Oregon Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainier Scholars: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPlymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreaking Boundaries Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDensho: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Apex Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Royso Foundation

How much does The Royso Foundation give?
The Royso Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $810,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Royso Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (79%), Philanthropy (7%), Religion (5%).
Who are The Royso Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Eastside Preparatory School ($2.3M), The Community Library Association Inc ($525k), Yellow Wood Academy ($100k).
Does The Royso Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Royso Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Royso Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Apex Foundation.
Where is The Royso Foundation based?
The Royso Foundation is based in DE.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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