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The Scott and Tara Roseman Foundation at a glance

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The Scott and Tara Roseman 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.

$246k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$512kHealth$194kRecreation & Sports$186kReligion$56kAnimals$35kHuman Services$21kFood & Nutrition$12kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$100,000
SUBLETTE COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION$53,463
FISHING FOR THE FIGHT$45,000
BAYSIDE CHURCH$25,000
JAE FOUNDATION$10,000
CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$5,000
COWPOKE FOUNDATION$5,000
ARIZONA CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FRIENDS OF RAYMOND JAMES: $10k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE: $7k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
OR
WY
CA
CO
KY
AZ
TN
GA
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$771k · 13 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
24

Total granted

$771k
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
0%

Still filing today

62%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FF
    FISHING FOR THE FIGHT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $72k · revenue +42%
  • FT
    FISHING THE GOOD FIGHT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $48k · revenue +245%
  • AC
    Arizona Cutting Horse Association
    2× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CA
    CAL ATHLETICS FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY ROSEVILLE CORPS
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • FO
    Friends of Raymond James Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
California Professional Horsemens Foundation

Foster amateur equestrian sports competition; confer achievement awards to various direct participants in equestrian sports competition; educate the public in proper methods & techniques of horsemanship; provide a forum & voice for…

Recreation & Sports
2
California Thoroughbred Foundation

To help develop veterinarians and fund research in Thoroughbred equine care and breeding within California.

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3
Clovis Rodeo Association Foundation

Educate the public on, and support the heritage and promotion of, the Clovis rodeo; provide student scholarships and resources for education in the areas of agriculture, livestock, and rodeo; provide resources for the enhancement and…

Food & Nutrition
4
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
5
California Waterfowl Foundation

It is the foundation's mission to further the purposes and objectives of california waterfowl association (cwa), a california corporation exempt from income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

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6
Friends of the California State Fair

Assist the california state fair and other agricultural ventures in the state of california in bettering the agricultural assets in the state.

Human Services
7
Colorado Hunter Jumper Foundation
Education
8
Rocky Mountain Horse Foundation
Science & Tech
9
California Farm Bureau Scholarship Foundation

Promote ag education with university scholarships.

Education
10
California Transportation Foundation

At California Transportation Foundation (CTF) our mission is simple. We recognize the best and brightest in our industry with our Annual CTF Transportation Awards program. We remember those who have given all in service to the people of…

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11
California Farmland Trust

The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.

Environment
12
California Trout Foundation

California trout was established in 1971 for the purpose of undertaking programs and activities to conserve and enhance the wild trout and their natural habitat within california. additionally, california trout gathers funds to finance…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Rangeland Trust; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 39 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $407,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONCAL ATHLETICS FUND: $100,000 · OtherCAL ATHLETICS FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $86,087 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBAYSIDE COVENANT CHURCH GRANITE BAY ROSEVILLE CA: $56,000 · OtherBAYSIDE COVENANT CHURCH GRANITE BAY ROSEVILLE CA+19 more: $67,566 · Other+19 moreFISHING FOR THE FIGHT: $71,700 · HealthFISHING FOR THE FIGHTSUBLETTE COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $53,463 · HealthSUBLETTE COUNTY HEALTH…FISHING THE GOOD FIGHT INC: $47,950 · HealthFISHING THE GOOD FIGHT…The Cowpoke Foundation: $15,500 · HealthThe Cowpoke FoundationCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $10,250 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthPCCH Youth Fund: $30,490 · Recreation & SportsWEST COAST EQUINE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsCALVIN CENTER INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsMikuni Charitable Organization: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJae Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Raymond James Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesLoomis Basin Charter School PTC: $5,200 · EducationCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $4,700 · Food & Nutrition
Other$716,653Health$199,863Recreation & Sports$56,990Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$16,500Education$5,200Food & Nutrition$4,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFISHING FOR THE FIGHT: $71,700 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetSUBLETTE COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $53,463 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFISHING THE GOOD FIGHT INC: $47,950 over 2y, 14% of budgetPCCH Youth Fund: $30,490 over 4y, 27% of budgetWEST COAST EQUINE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetThe Cowpoke Foundation: $15,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetArizona Cutting Horse Association: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $10,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Raymond James Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMikuni Charitable Organization: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCALVIN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLACER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $5,574 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLoomis Basin Charter School PTC: $5,200 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $4,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANYON STATE ACADEMY INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $1,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA WILDLIFE OFFICERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN JOAQUIN JUNIOR SHOW AND AUCTION COUNCIL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Scott and Tara Roseman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scott and Tara Roseman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Scott and Tara Roseman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Scott and Tara Roseman 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.

    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 39 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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