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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.

$220k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$1.2MArts & Culture$854kPhilanthropy$803kCommunity Improvement$114kEducation$80kPublic Benefit$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%VOICE OF OC: $10k → 10%TM23 FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 14%ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY: $25k → 17%ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%TM23 FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%TM23 FOUNDATION: $244 → 14%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE: $150k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE: $136k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $81k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE: $65k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $50k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE: $50k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $50k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE: $50k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE: $50k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE: $50k → 10%PACIFIC SYMPHONY: $25k → 10%PACIFIC SYMPHONY: $20k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE: $20k → 10%PACIFIC SYMPHONY: $15k → 10%PACIFIC SYMPHONY: $10k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE: $5k → 10%PACIFIC SYMPHONY: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $64k → 10%CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $103k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION & FAMILY SERVICES ORANGE COUNTY: $100k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION & FAMILY SERVICES ORANGE COUNTY: $100k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION & FAMILY SERVICES ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION & FAMILY SERVICES ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%SEE ATTACHMENT: $235k → 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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 3 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$2.0M
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TF
    TM23 FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +95%
  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $757k · revenue +153%
  • PS
    Pacific Symphony
    5× · 2018–2023 · $73k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CV
    CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $114k · revenue -20%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +3%
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
The Orange County Endowment for Intellectual Advancement
Philanthropy
2
Orange County School of the Arts

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.

Education
3
Orange County Parks Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
4
Orange County Technology Action Network

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…

Community Improvement
5
Orange County Current Affairs Forum Dba Oc Forum

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Orange County Community Foundation

Transforming our community's heartfelt intention into greater impact for good.

Philanthropy
7
The Lincoln Club of Orange County

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.

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8
World Affairs Council of Orange County

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…

International
9
The California Channel

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…

—
10
Orange County Classical Academy

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…

Education
11
Association of California Cities

To support local control and promote good governance & policy making among orange county leaders.

Education
12
Philharmonic Society of Orange County

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County School of the Arts Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TM23 FOUNDATION: $1,208,194 · Youth DevelopmentTM23 FOUNDATIONORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $756,500 · Arts & CultureORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE …Pacific Symphony: $72,500 · Arts & CulturePacific SymphonyJEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $802,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE C…CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $113,750 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $10,000 · EducationVoice of Orange CountyOrg: $10,000 · EducationORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · Education
Youth Development$1,208,194Arts & Culture$829,000Philanthropy$802,500Community Improvement$113,750Other$75,000Education$51,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTM23 FOUNDATION: $1,208,194 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $802,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $756,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $113,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPacific Symphony: $72,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoice of Orange CountyOrg: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CLUB INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Orange County Communi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ernest & Irma Rose Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernest & Irma Rose Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Ernest & Irma Rose Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ernest & Irma Rose 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 12 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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