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The Royster Family 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.

$8k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$8,364
Largest grant, FY2023
$8,364
Organizations funded a year
1 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Royster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY20231$8k100%
FY202214$171k100%
FY20211$10k0%
FY20201$10k100%
FY20192$9k100%
FY20182$12k50%
FY20171$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$50kEnvironment$44kEducation$38kHealth$32kFood & Nutrition$25kAnimals$13kCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSolebury School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Grande Health Clinic Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBarrier Island Parks Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAlbemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Grande Woman's Club Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSuncoast Humane Societyinc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA Better Shot Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 9.

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.

Carbonari Family FoundationFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carbonari Family Foundation · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Sackett Family Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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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How do I get to The Royster Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Royster Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Royster Family Foundation

How much does The Royster Family Foundation give?
The Royster Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $8,364 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Royster Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Environment (19%), Education (17%).
Who are The Royster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ($25k), Solebury School ($20k), Boca Grande Health Clinic Inc ($15k).
Does The Royster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Royster Family 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 Royster Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carbonari Family Foundation, Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation, Sackett Family Foundation.
Where is The Royster Family Foundation based?
The Royster Family Foundation is based in VA.

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 20 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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