· Private foundation
Fred Rosenau Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODMERE ART MUSEUM | $120,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA OPERA | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,500 |
| MAIN LINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,550 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENCE | $2,000 |
| VIEW | $2,000 |
| ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MARK VII FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE | $500 |
| ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR CONSERVATION | $150 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FUND | $150 |
| TIVOLI FREE LIBRARY | $100 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +97% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- WAWOODMERE ART MUSEUM3× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +180%
- TBTHE BARNES FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +59%
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- PAPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTSone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +2%
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +14%
- TFTIVOLI FIRE CO INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +181%
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.
Pokc was formed for charitable and educational purposes and is dedicated to the promotion of the arts.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The apollo theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the african american narrative and its role in the development of american and global…
The westmoreland museum of american art offers a place to share compelling and meaningful cultural experiences that open the door to new ideas, perspectives, and possibilities.
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
Vision: the morris museum is the region's premier engine of curiosity and wonderment. mission: the morris museum enriches lives with exemplary exhibitions and performances of art, design, and science. see statement attached on schedule o.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
Philadelphia theatre company is a vital civic institution dedicated to the creation of extraordinary theatrical experiences that reflect the essential issues and ideas of our time, and which foster connection, understanding, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Tivoli Fire Co Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 61 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 WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds TIVOLI FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TIVOLI FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds FARM FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds KAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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 Fred Rosenau 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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