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Barbara & William Rosenthal Family Foundation at a glance

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Barbara & William Rosenthal Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$1.4MHuman Services$315kEnvironment$190kYouth Development$145kCivil Rights$135kHousing & Shelter$110kCrime & Legal$93kInternational$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $485k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $155k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER$55,000
PPFA$50,000
NO ONE LEFT BEHIND$50,000
RAINN$35,000
REEL WORKS TEEN FILMMAKING INC$35,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DIABETES CENTER$30,000
DAWN$30,000
ENDOMETREOSIS FOUNDATION$30,000
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER$20,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
THE HUNGER PROJECT$20,000
LITTLE BIT$20,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$20,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: $100k → 7%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: $50k → 7%THE SOPHIA WAY: $20k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $20k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $20k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE (REWA): $5k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE (REWA): $5k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE (REWA): $5k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE (REWA): $5k → 9%GIRLS WHO CODE: $6k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $6k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $3k → 17%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

WA
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
LA
GA
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 32 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
8

Total granted

$2.4M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+20%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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

  • RS
    REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +53%
  • Rape Abuse & Incest National Network
    4× · 2021–2024 · $130k · revenue +15%
  • DA
    DOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • EF
    EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue -16%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +20%
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
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
3
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
9
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
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Patrol Base Abbate. 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

34 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. 34 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $586,165 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $95,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERLITTLE BIT: $95,000 · OtherLITTLE BITNAOMI BERRIE DIABETES CENTER: $90,000 · OtherNAOMI BERRIE DIABETES CENTERENDOMETREOSIS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherENDOMETREOSIS FOUNDATIONEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT: $55,000 · OtherGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $55,000 · Other+19 more: $443,000 · Other+19 moreNo One Left Behind: $150,000 · Human ServicesNo One Left Behi…DOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $120,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE W…THE SOPHIA WAY: $70,000 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAYRefugee Womens Alliance: $20,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $130,000 · HealthRape Abuse & Inc…CRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $80,000 · HealthCRISIS TEXT LINE…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $80,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDAT…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $80,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 · HealthREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION SMILE INC: $50,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $20,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $20,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · InternationalWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $55,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $20,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $80,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,509,165Human Services$385,000Health$385,000Youth Development$135,000International$125,000Environment$105,000Crime & Legal$80,000

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 budgetNo One Left Behind: $150,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC: $135,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $130,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $55,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR FIGHT INITIATIVE INC: $37,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATROL BASE ABBATE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Seattle FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Barbara & William Rosenthal Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara & William Rosenthal Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 48 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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