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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
ENDOMETREOSIS FOUNDATION$30,000
DAWN$30,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DIABETES CENTER$30,000
C-40 CITIES LEADERSHIP GROUP$20,000
THE HUNGER PROJECT$20,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$20,000
THE SOPHIA WAY$20,000
AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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. Your 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

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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

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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you 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%
+14%

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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Land Conservation Organizat…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Government Accountability R…Veteran Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCancer Support OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Health CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/36
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,529

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

34 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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $586,165 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $95,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERLITTLE BIT — $95,000 · OtherLITTLE BITENDOMETREOSIS FOUNDATION — $90,000 · OtherENDOMETREOSIS FOUNDATIONNAOMI BERRIE DIABETES CENTER — $90,000 · OtherNAOMI BERRIE DIABETES CENTEREVERYTOWN 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…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $80,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDAT…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $80,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN…CRISIS TEXT LINE INC — $80,000 · HealthCRISIS TEXT LINE…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 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $20,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT — $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 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 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 budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER — $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY — $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $55,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY — $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATROL BASE ABBATE — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked camp — 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

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 Barbara & William 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your 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

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.

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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 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.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines