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Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust

Foxborough, MA · EIN 22-2780804. Reported 68 grants totalling $97,526 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$97,526granted, 2021-2024
54organizations funded
21%of grantees funded again the next year
$49,671assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $250 and $2,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $12,183. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
39 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
21 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Don Rodman Family FoundationFoxboro, MA$12,183112023
Clarke Schools for Hearing and SpeechCanton, MA$8,250332024
National Hole in OneWindham, NH$5,041112021
Alexis Newton ScholarshipCanton, MA$5,000112022
Charles Doody ScholarshipCanton, MA$5,000112023
Kelli WoodworthCanton, MA$5,000112024
Sean Connolly ScholarshipCanton, MA$5,000112022
Taylor HarrisCanton, MA$5,000112021
Arthur F Stearns Memorial FundBraintree, MA$3,600222024
Dean S Luce Elementary SchoolCanton, MA$3,250442024
Old Colony YMCANorth Easton, MA$3,000112022
Camelot Enterprises IncStoughton, MA$2,996222023
Daniel's TableFramingham, MA$2,500112022
Danielle Struzziery MemorialHull, MA$2,500112021
Lakes Region Community ServicesLaconia, NH$2,500112021
Operation MordechaiBoca Raton, FL$2,500112022
Canton High SchoolCanton, MA$2,000222022
Laboure CenterBoston, MA$2,000112021
Nh Counsil on Problem GamblingConcord, NH$2,000112023
Struzz's Home RunHull, MA$2,000112024
Canton Youth Soccer CampCanton, MA$1,496112024
Chs Athletic Boosters ClubCanton, MA$1,000112023
Danielle E Struzziery ScholarshipHull, MA$1,000112022
Michael & Cheryl CunninghamCanton, MA$1,000112023
Squam Lakes Natural Science CenterHolderness, NH$950332023
BccouBourne, MA$750112023
Hockomock YMCAN Attleboro, MA$750222022
Walpole Little LeagueWalpole, MA$750332023
Canton Little LeagueCanton, MA$550112023
Blessed SacramentWalpole, MA$500112023
Canton Youth HockeyCanton, MA$500112022
Daniels TableFramingham, MA$500112021
Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyRye Brook, NY$500112021
Mayer Realty Group of CompassCanton, MA$500112021
North End Music & Performing Arts CenterBoston, MA$500112022
The Ray Tye Medical Aid FoundationBraintree, MA$500112021
The Town of Canton Vetrans DeptCanton, MA$500112021
Town of CantonCanton, MA$500112022
Canton Community TheatreCanton, MA$400112023
Norton Youth Football & CheerNorton, MA$400222023
Rodman Ford Sales IncFoxboro, MA$360112021
Bellingham Falcons Youth Football and CheerBellingham, MA$250112024
Cape Wellness CollaborativeBarnstable, MA$250112023
Kingston Youth Sports OrganizationKingston, MA$250112024
Served KitchenStoughton, MA$250112021
Westwood Police DepartmentWestwood, MA$250112022
Waiting Animals Get SupportN Dighton, MA$250112024
Young Life Boston South-West CapernaumWalpole, MA$200112022
C2 FoundationNorton, MA$150112023
American LegionSharon, MA$100112021
Foxboro Soccer Club IncFoxboro, MA$100112021
Norfolk Girls SoftballNorfolk, MA$100112021
PetaNorfolk, VA$100112021
Second Chances for Blind DogsSherman Oaks, CA$50112021

9 of 54 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 21%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Recreation & Sports
5 grants
Environment
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202124$24,951$500
202217$26,150$750
202318$29,379$650
20249$17,046$1,496

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 86% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Massachusetts
$84K
New Hampshire
$10K
Florida
$2K
New York
$500
Virginia
$100
California
$50

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 45 Washington Street, Foxborough, MA, 02035. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 22-2780804 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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