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Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg Foundation at a glance

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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
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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

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’17
5
’18
2
’19

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

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2018 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL$12,100
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO - UC REGE$10,000
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
ROSS SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH$5,000
REPRESENTATION PROJECT$5,000
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM INC$2,500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%REPRESENTATION PROJECT: $10k → 8%GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 10%CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%ROSS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM INC: $3k → 10%REPRESENTATION PROJECT: $5k → 8%GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%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
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.

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San Francisco Family Foundation
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2
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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3
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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4
San Francisco City Guides

Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.

Human Services
5
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
6
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
7
City Fields Foundation
Recreation & Sports
8
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Ross Mckee Foundation for the Musical Arts
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10
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
11
InterMusic Sf

InterMusic SF is dedicated to sustaining and nourishing the Bay Area creative environment by offering dynamic programming and vital resources for music creators and audience members.

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden State Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Music Heals International. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL: $32,100 · Arts & CultureMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONALRoots & Branches Conservancy: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRoots & Branches ConservancyCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO - UC REGE: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CA…The Representation Project: $15,000 · Civil RightsThe Represen…Ross School Foundation: $5,000 · EducationENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $2,500 · Health
Recreation & Sports$45,000Arts & Culture$42,100Other$20,000Civil Rights$15,000Education$5,000Youth Development$5,000Health$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL: $32,100 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetRoots & Branches Conservancy: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoss School Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Marin Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    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.

    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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