· Private foundation
David & Elizabeth Rome 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Nature Conservancy | $100,000 |
| Music for Minors | $60,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $50,000 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $20,000 |
| KQED | $15,000 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Rainbow Housing Assistance | $10,000 |
| East Palo Alto Kids Foundation | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Indiana-Kentu | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte | $10,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| ACLU | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMUSIC FOR MINORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $347k · revenue +59%
- EPEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +35%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- AAAll Americans Votegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +111%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -4%
- NNIMBLEone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
We believe that by changing where capital is invested, we can shift the structures of power to benefit more people.
The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…
To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR MINORS INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds All Americans Vote ↗
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RESURGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David & Elizabeth Rome Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Elizabeth Rome Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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