Illinois · Private foundation
Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust
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.
- $272k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $262k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $238k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $187k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $192k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $147k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $129k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Beth Israel | $127,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Michael Reese Health Trust | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Anshe Emet Synagogue | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Crown Family Foundation · Charles and M R Shapiro Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust
- How much does Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust give?
- Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust reported 26 grants totaling $272,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Religion (18%), International (14%).
- Who are Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Temple Beth Israel ($127k), Anti-Defamation League ($65k), Michael Reese Health Trust ($60k).
- Does Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust 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 Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust based?
- Harry & Bessye Rosenberg Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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