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The Stephan and Renee Rollin Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Stephan and Renee Rollin 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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$372kPhilanthropy$1kEducation$200Religion$180Health$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERA PHILADELPHIA$25,000
LIONS GATE$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM HOHENEMS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $495) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE GERSHMAN Y: $495 → 22%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 13 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$377k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

54%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • OPERA PHILADELPHIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +31%
  • TB
    THE BARNES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +47%
  • WS
    WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • PF
    PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $650 · revenue +221%
  • GP
    GERSHAM PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • PJ
    PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA
    one grant, 2017 · $495 · revenue -62%
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
American Museum of the Moving Image

See schedule omuseum of the moving image (momi) is the only museum in the u.s. that explores the central technology of the present moment.screens are all around us. we use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. the moving…

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
6
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.

Arts & Culture
7
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
Artis-Naples Inc

Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.

Arts & Culture
9
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
10
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
11
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Street Theatre Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Ccsa Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERA PHILADELPHIA: $357,177 · Arts & CultureOPERA PHILADELPHIA+9 more: $12,558 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherLIONS GATE: $2,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM HOHENEMS INC: $1,375 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NJ: $1,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $860 · OtherGERSHAM PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: $500 · Other+3 more: $580 · OtherPHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $495 · Human ServicesCCSA FOUNDATION: $200 · Education
Arts & Culture$369,735Other$9,115Human Services$495Education$200

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $357,177 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetNational Liberty Museum: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $495 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCCSA FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $108 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $100 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.

The William Penn Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Brind FoundationThe Sylvia W and Rand…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Independence Foundati…The Philadelphia Cult…The Philadelphia Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…
The William Penn FoundationPA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Brind Foundation · The Sylvia W and Randle M Kauders Foundation Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Stephan and Renee Rollin Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephan and Renee Rollin Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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