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ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC

ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,100 to it, the largest being MUTUAL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ($2,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$185k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$3k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Rockflower Partners Inc does

Mission

Rockflower partners, inc ("rockflower") is a venture philanthropy fund designed to bring catalytic funding and creative new partnerships to locally led, civil society organizations and social entrepreneurs working to improve the lives of women and girls. Working through the lens of the "five keys" - peace and security, maternal and reproductive health, access to food and water, education and economic empowerment, rockflower partners with ngo's, social businesses and entrepreneurs implementing real and substantive change to ensure that women are recognized as the change agents in their communities and societies.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Rockflowers achievements in 2024 continued to focus on balancing the most critical needs facing women and girls within their communities, whilst also maintaining a vision to help them create a sustainable future. We continued to provide emergency funding to those partners facing dire emergencies to ensure that they felt supported during the most critical life threatening moments. The challenges of poverty, malnutrition, violence and conflict have only increased with the intensity of climate change and rising costs of living. For that reason rockflower has continued to provide targeted funding for those partners who are deeply embedded within the communities they serve. Many of the grassroots women's associations were the lifeline for so many families last year. We anticipate the need only being greater as multiple challenges face those living on the farthest margins. We were also able to support those partners who have built on our years of support and are now able to transition into building more sustainable sources of income with the introduction of new approaches to agriculture including agroecology and micro farming. We have added one new partner in ghana with a focus on rice…

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($79k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2018 Revenue 116 ($85k) Expenses 110 ($86k) Net assets 64 ($2k)2019 Revenue 130 ($96k) Expenses 117 ($92k) Net assets 220 ($6k)2020 Revenue 135 ($99k) Expenses 129 ($102k) Net assets 133 ($3k)2021 Revenue 186 ($137k) Expenses 176 ($138k) Net assets 87 ($2k)2022 Revenue 229 ($169k) Expenses 214 ($168k) Net assets 104 ($3k)2023 Revenue 131 ($97k) Expenses 124 ($98k) Net assets 74 ($2k)2024 Revenue 251 ($185k) Expenses 234 ($184k) Net assets 132 ($3k)
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Revenue (251)Expenses (234)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2k to $6k (+246%).

$3k
$2k
$6k
$3k
$2k
$3k
$2k
$3k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$945
’18
$4k
’19
−$2k
’20
−$1k
’21
$439
’22
−$775
’23
$1k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Christine Ward

President,CEO,dir,tre (thru 3/2025)

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

25%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC?
ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,100 to it, the largest being MUTUAL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ($2,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,100 in grants to ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC?
MUTUAL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROCKFLOWER PARTNERS INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing