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Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation

The foundation is a non-profit organization that provides funding for ovarian cancer research and child literacy

$117k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$589kInternational$82kEducation$59kHuman Services$21kYouth Development$20kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
$20,840
Median grant
2
States reached
$610k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER$82,125
VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL AND NON-PROFITS$20,840
SAVE THE CHILDREN$13,800
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LITTLE FREE LIBRARY: $4k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $44k → 9%DEBORAH BINDER: $500 → 9%ENCHANTED BACKPACK: $7k → 7%BERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $20k → 8%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $850 → 14%OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $4k → 6%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $3k → 19%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $14k → 15%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $20k → 9%ENCHANTED BACKPACK: $3k → 7%OPEN BOOKS: $4k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER: $82k → 7%OPEN BOOKS: $3k → 14%U OF UNIV OF CHICAGO: $75k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER: $208k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER: $83k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER: $68k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER: $55k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER: $15k → 14%VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL AND NON-PROFITS: $21k → 14%MISC RECIPIENTS LESS THAN 5000: $12k → 14%MISC RECEPIENTS LESS THAN 5000: $4k → 14%CHILDHOOD LITERACY FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$609k · 5 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$609k
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+36%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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
    FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER
    6× · 2019–2025 · $510k · revenue +58%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $64k · revenue +0%
  • EB
    ENCHANTED BACKPACK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • UO
    U OF UNIV OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • CL
    CHILDHOOD LITERACY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • BB
    BERNIE'S BOOK BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +71%
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER: $509,625 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCERU OF UNIV OF CHICAGO: $75,000 · OtherU OF UNIV OF CHICAGOCHILDHOOD LITERACY FOUNDATION: $30,273 · OtherCHILDHOOD LITERACY FOUN…VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL AND NON-PROFITS: $20,840 · OtherVARIOUS EDUCATIONAL AND…SAVE THE CHILDREN: $17,200 · OtherSAVE THE CHILDRENMISC RECIPIENTS LESS THAN 5000: $11,884 · OtherMISC RECIPIENTS LESS TH…+3 more: $8,884 · Other+3 moreSave The Children Federation Inc: $64,374 · InternationalSave The …BERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $20,400 · Youth DevelopmentOPEN BOOKS LTD: $7,788 · EducationLITTLE FREE LIBRARY: $4,488 · EducationFrancis W Parker School: $850 · EducationENCHANTED BACKPACK: $10,254 · Philanthropy
Health$509,625Other$164,081International$64,374Youth Development$20,400Education$13,126Philanthropy$10,254

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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER: $509,625 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $64,374 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $20,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENCHANTED BACKPACK: $10,254 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD: $7,788 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE FREE LIBRARY: $4,488 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $850 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.

  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds ENCHANTED BACKPACK ↗
  • Who funds OPEN BOOKS LTD ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 15 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 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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