· Private foundation
Ernest & Irma Rose 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE | $50,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TFTM23 FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +95%
- OCORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $757k · revenue +153%
- PSPacific Symphony5× · 2018–2023 · $73k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CVCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $114k · revenue -20%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We provide an unparalleled arts and acdademic education in a creative, challenging and nurturing environment to a diverse student body passionate about the arts, preparing them to reach their highest potential.
The foundation's mission is to raise money to preserve, enhance, and promote the use and appreciation of parks and beaches in orange county, california.
Octane connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth in orange county. our members represent orange county technology executive leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, academicians, and…
The primary purpose is to provide a public affairs educational forum for today's leaders to discuss world-wide current issues important to the orange county community, bringing together people of different backgrounds and persuasions for…
Transforming our community's heartfelt intention into greater impact for good.
The specific purpose of this organization is to promote the common business interests of commercial enterprises in the community by improving the economic and business climate in orange county, california.
The council is a non-partisan citizen's education organization that serves as the focal point of the community's international interests. it provides a variety of programs and services to individuals, schools, corporations and…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The mission of the orange county classical academy is to develop students in mind and character through a classical, content-rich liberal arts and sciences curriculum that emphasizes the principles of scholarship, moral character, and…
To support local control and promote good governance & policy making among orange county leaders.
The mission of the philharmonic society of oc is to foster an appreciation for music by presenting national and international performances of the highest quality while also providing dynamic and innovative music education programs for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County School of the Arts Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TM23 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Voice of Orange CountyOrg ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CLUB INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ernest & Irma Rose 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.
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.
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