For foundations
Board terms end. The relationships don't.
Roost keeps your foundation's people — current board, staff, past board, and the wider circle who keep showing up — in one private directory, organized by cohort and carried forward as people change roles.
People don't leave a foundation. They change how they show up.
Someone joins your board and gives you four good years. Their term ends — and they become the person you call when the gala needs a chair, the one who remembers why the bylaws say what they say, the donor who never misses. The title changed. The relationship didn't.
Most tools can't hold that story. A CRM marks them inactive. The spreadsheet grows another tab. Their number lives on in the outgoing chair's inbox, and two transitions later nobody is quite sure who still knows them. That's institutional memory, lost one board term at a time.
Built for how a foundation is peopled.
A directory organized by cohort.
Current Board, Staff, Past Board — the directory is sliced the way you already think about your people. It's clear at a glance who's active this year and who to keep close.
One record that moves between cohorts.
When a term ends, you move the person — not re-type their data. Their contact info, their history, and their privacy choices come along. A new chair inherits a living directory instead of reconstructing one from a spreadsheet and an old inbox.
Announcements to exactly the right circle.
Email the whole foundation, just the current board, or just past board — one click, no exposed addresses, no side list to maintain.
Members are people, not “parents of.”
Roost grew up in schools, but foundation records don't assume classrooms or kids. Members stand on their own, with interests that match the actual work — finance, governance, grants, events — so you know who to tap for the audit committee.
And the privacy spine is the same everywhere on Roost: each member chooses what to share, the choice is enforced in the database rather than hidden on a screen, and nobody — not the board, not us — can bulk-export the list. Privacy policy.
We size it with you.
Foundations are smaller than schools or HOAs, and every one is shaped a little differently, so we set the price with you on a short call instead of publishing a number that won't fit. Same two plans as everywhere else on Roost.
Let's talk about your foundation.
Fifteen minutes to see how your board and members are organized and whether Roost fits. No pitch deck.
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