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Ann and Mike Rosenthal Family Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2017
12
Grants FY2017
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k10 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEAUMONT FOUNDATION$20,000
CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART$10,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL$5,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$5,000
COMMON GROUND$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES$1,000
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
LAKE CHARLEVOIX ASSOCIATION$500
LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY$500
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $5k → 17%MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 8%LAKE CHARLEVOIX ASSOCIATION: $500 → 9%CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 21%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 17%COMMON GROUND: $1k → 8%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $5k → 17%BEAUMONT FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL: $5k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.

Environment
2
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
3
Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc

Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan

Freedom, equality, and justicethe bill of rights declared that we have rights and liberties that the government shouldn't interfere with. rights like the freedom of speech and our right to a speedy trial that are the cornerstone of our…

6
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
7
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

See schedule o.legal aid's mission is to secure justice, equity and access to opportunity for and with people who have low incomes through passionate legal representation and advocacy for systematic change.

8
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

9
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

10
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
12
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BEAUMONT FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherBEAUMONT FOUNDATIONCRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART — $10,000 · OtherCRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ARTPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD+2 more — $1,500 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE …THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRO…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RE…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · InternationalMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 · AnimalsCOMMON GROUND — $1,000 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY — $500 · Human Services
Other$36,500Civil Rights$10,000Environment$5,000International$1,000Animals$1,000Health$1,000Human Services$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GROUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Rochelle Rosenthal Forester and Randolph L Forester FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochelle Rosenthal Forester and Randolph L Forester Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ann and Mike Rosenthal Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ann and Mike Rosenthal Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ann and Mike Rosenthal Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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