How much does Irving Rothlein Foundation give?

Irving Rothlein Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $791,095 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does Irving Rothlein Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are International (86%), Arts & Culture (5%), Health (3%).

Who are Irving Rothlein Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($25k), HealthAlliance Foundation Inc ($18k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($7k).

Does Irving Rothlein Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Irving Rothlein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Irving Rothlein Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrell Family Foundation, Seckinger Foundation Corporation, Ebs Foundation.

Where is Irving Rothlein Foundation based?

Irving Rothlein Foundation is based in NY.

Irving Rothlein Foundation

Irving Rothlein Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Irving Rothlein Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$791k

Granted FY2022

Grants FY2022

States reached

$395k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

International$791kArts & Culture$44kHealth$26kEducation$11kHuman Services$9kCivil Rights$8kPublic Benefit$6kReligion$4kOther$0

02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k1 grant · $1k
$250k+2 grants · $790k

$395,034

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TR HELEN ROTHLEIN & JAMES WHITE	$395,061
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TR NANCY ROTHLEIN JOSEPH	$395,034
SAWYER AUTO FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$50k · 48 repeat orgs$861k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 48 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$50k

$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+18%

Still filing today

60%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $791k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

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

MM
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
5× · 2017–2021 · $7k · revenue +58%
HA
HERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA
4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +52%
JF
Jewish Federation of Ulster County Inc
3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +13%

Funded once

TU
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +25%
HM
Holocaust Memorial Museum
one grant, 2019 · $10k
SH
Shriners Hospital
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science

Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International

American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal

Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education

National Academy of Public Administration

The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non partisan Organization established in 1967 and chartered by Congress in 1984. See Schedule O

Public Benefit

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Freedom Watch Inc Center for Economic Justice. 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

77 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. 77 of the 146 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/77

Grantees still filing

55/77

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$848,937Arts & Culture$33,055Health$20,551Education$5,160Public Benefit$4,000Philanthropy$2,800Human Services$1,770

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.

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.

Farrell Family FoundationCA26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farrell Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Ebs Foundation · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Leoffler Trust · H & R Peters Family Foundation · Vandevere Charitable Foundation · The Kirchner Family Foundation · William H & Ella W McMahan Foundation · Brumit Charitable Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann 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 Irving Rothlein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving Rothlein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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