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Bertha & Jacob Rosenberg 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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$172kArts & Culture$113kHuman Services$41kPhilanthropy$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kReligion$20kInternational$10kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$909k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$15,000
LIGHTHOUSE GUILD$15,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR FOUNDATION$8,000
SHADOW JUMPERS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
JEWISH FUND FOR THE RIGHTEOUS$2,000
JEWISH BRAILLE INSTITUTE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,100
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 (FY17–21, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$390k · 14 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$390k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

21%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • SJ
    ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $125k
  • LG
    LIGHTHOUSE GUILD
    7× · 2019–2025 · $105k
  • WW
    WOUNDED WARRIOR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $32k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • RL
    ROCCO L DIANTONIO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • RN
    Russian Nobility Association in Americagraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +470%
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
Donna Dantini Witt Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Nib Foundation
—
3
The Giancarlo Ditrapano Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Rossi Foundation
—
5
Dirk Nowitzki Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Rusi (Us) Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Illuminate Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
The Nicholls Biondi Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Daci Foundation
Health
10
The Laugeni Family Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Joseph Valenti Jr Family Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Mario Negri Institute Foundation
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Speaks Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rocco L Diantonio Memorial Foundation 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

10 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. 10 of the 27 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)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $125,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALLIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $105,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE GUILDWOUNDED WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $32,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR FOUNDATIONFAIRLAWN VFD NO 3: $25,000 · OtherFAIRLAWN VFD NO 3SISKIYOU COUNTY FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherJEWISH FUND FOR THE RIGHTEOUS: $17,000 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $14,000 · Other+10 more: $40,600 · Other+10 moreJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,000 · HealthONE CATALYST FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthSHADOW JUMPERS INC: $5,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $3,000 · HealthDOROT INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesROCCO L DIANTONIO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyRussian Nobility Association in America: $4,250 · Recreation & SportsHAZLET FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $3,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $1,500 · Arts & CultureIBLA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$378,600Health$26,500Human Services$9,000Philanthropy$5,000Recreation & Sports$4,250Public Safety & Disaster$3,000Arts & Culture$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDOROT INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROCCO L DIANTONIO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSHADOW JUMPERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRussian Nobility Association in America: $4,250 over 1y, 24% of budgetHAZLET FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $3,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIBLA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 JBI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE CATALYST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCCO L DIANTONIO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHADOW JUMPERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Russian Nobility Association in America ↗
  • Who funds HAZLET FIRE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds IBLA FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bertha & Jacob Rosenberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bertha & Jacob Rosenberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bertha & Jacob Rosenberg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bertha & Jacob Rosenberg 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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