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Ardath Rosengarden Charitable Trust at a glance

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Ardath Rosengarden Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$132k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$1.5MHuman Services$6kScience & Tech$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $14,761, the rows itemized in this filing. The $131,626 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $116,865 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UFAR ANIMALS RESCUE$8,161
EVERGLADES ANIMAL COALITION$5,000
ABOUT THE ANIMALS CORP$1,100
HAPPY DAYS PET RESCUE INC$500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BIG CAT RESCUE: $4k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $4k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
PA
CA
UT
TN
DC
AL
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$852k · 23 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
6

Total granted

$852k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+39%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PA
    Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $136k · revenue +39%
  • PC
    Purrzilla Cat Rescue Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $71k · revenue +122%
  • FF
    FLORIDAS FORGOTTEN FELINES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +39%
  • KR
    KITKATS RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • KK
    Kitty Karma of Delray Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +2%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
2
Fur Ever Home Cat Sanctuary

Provide loving care & home for approx 120 Feral Cats that are in danger out in streets/unadoptable. TNR projects for feral cat colonies around Horry County. Provide Vet & medication care for animals in-house.

Animals
3
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
4
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
5
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
6
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
7
Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
8
Sirens Cove Animal Rescue Inc

Reduce the number of stray cats in South Florida by educating the public through social media, community events, & perform TNR services (Trap, Neuter, & Release)for stray cats. We also rescue injured cats, foster them until homes are found.

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9
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
10
Cocoa Kitties

Animal rescue

Animals
11
Purrfect Friends Cat Rescue

Cat Rescue

Animals
12
Palm Beach Purrs Corp

Foster-based kitten focused rescue with the mission of rehabilitation, sterilization, adoption and supporting TNVR (Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Release) and care of community cats

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri County Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Florida Humane Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

S FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER: $301,000 · OtherS FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTERCAT RESCUE INC: $42,000 · OtherCAT RESCUE INCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherJOYCES VOICE FOR CATS: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $27,250 · Other+8 morePeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $136,000 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Bea…Purrzilla Cat Rescue Inc: $70,950 · AnimalsPurrzilla Cat Rescue IncSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $50,400 · AnimalsSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INCFLORIDAS FORGOTTEN FELINES INC: $40,000 · AnimalsFLORIDAS FORGOTTEN FELINES INC+15 more: $76,011 · Animals+15 moreFELINE FRIENDS INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyFELINE FRI…BIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $8,000 · Human Services
Other$410,250Animals$373,361Philanthropy$80,000Human Services$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $136,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFELINE FRIENDS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetPurrzilla Cat Rescue Inc: $70,950 over 6y, 16% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $50,400 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFLORIDAS FORGOTTEN FELINES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE DARBSTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUFAR ANIMALS RESCUE CORP: $8,161 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRetirement Home For Horses Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetShepherds Green Sanctuary: $4,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKitty Karma of Delray Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTruly All Cats Trapping and Rescue Inc: $600 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

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.

Leslie L Alexander Fo…Folke H Peterson Char…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Leslie L Alexander Foundation IncFL17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Folke H Peterson Charitable Foundation TW 920-041275201496 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ardath Rosengarden Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ardath Rosengarden Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    13get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Ardath Rosengarden Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Ardath Rosengarden Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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