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Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
6
Organizations funded FY2018
67%
First-time grantees FY2018
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50% of Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Golden State Warriors Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $45k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
5
’18
2
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$12,100
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 67% of the organizations Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20186$40k67%
FY20173$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Youth Development$50kInternational$32kCivil Rights$15kEducation$15kEnvironment$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHealth$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation

How much does Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation give?
Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $44,600 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Youth Development (37%), International (24%), Civil Rights (11%).
Who are Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Music Heals International ($32k), The Representation Project ($15k), Roots & Branches Conservancy ($10k).
Does Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation based?
Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation is based in DE.

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 9 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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