· Private foundation
Irving and Dorothy Rom Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACWIS - NATIONAL OFFICE SCIENCE | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $50,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| NAMI ILLINOIS | $20,000 |
| THRESHOLDS | $20,000 |
| THE KENNEDY FORUM ILLINOIS | $20,000 |
| IRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC | $20,000 |
| GOLDA MEIR HOUSE MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE INTERFAITH TRUST & HARMONY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- APAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $385k · revenue +26%
- TTTHE THRESHOLDS5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +38%
- NINAMI ILLINOIS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- AHAMITA HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $70k
- AAAMITA ASCENSION ILLINOIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $53k
- MHMENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE - KENNEDY FORUMone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
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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How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds NAMI ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds IRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds American Board of Professional Psychology Foundati ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds C21 Womens Ensemble ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irving and Dorothy Rom Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving and Dorothy Rom Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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