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Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$107kEducation$90kReligion$67kHuman Services$56kEmployment$55kCrime & Legal$27kHealth$22kPhilanthropy$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$15,000
NORTHSIDE LEARNING CENTER$10,000
GENESEE LAND TRUST$10,000
JUBILEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC$7,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA$5,000
WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS$2,575
OSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES$2,500
ONONDAGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES$1,981
SAINT LUCY'S CHURCH$1,027
ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 17%DAYSTAR KIDS: $2k → 14%JCC OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $1k → 14%HOPEPRINT: $3k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$329k · 17 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
62

Total granted

$329k
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+21%

Still filing today

53%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • GL
    Genesee Land Trust Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +700%
  • IW
    INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK
    2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +214%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    5× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEWLAND CENTER FOR ADULT LEARNING & LITERACY
    one grant, 2017 · $28k
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • TF
    The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +8%
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
Genesee Valley Conservancy Inc

Protection of important natural resources, open space, habitat and agricultural lands in the Genesee River watershed through the use of land acquisition and conservation easements. Continued on Schedule O. Provide planning services to…

Environment
2
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
3
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
4
Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc

Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.

Crime & Legal
5
Children in Conflict Inc

Vision: a world where no child's life is torn apart by war.children in conflict works tirelessly to restore hope, safety and childhoods to children whose lives are affected by war.

Human Services
6
Neighborhood Housing Services of Rochester Inc

NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…

Housing & Shelter
7
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
8
Center for Constitutional Rights

Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…

Civil Rights
9
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
10
Rochester Downtown Alliance

To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.

—
11
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
12
Center for Conflict Resolution

The mission of the organization (ccr) shall be to work with individuals, communities, courts, and other institutions to manage and resolve conflict.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Mcalister Foundation. 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

42 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. 42 of the 86 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $40,000 · OtherINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORKTHE NEWLAND CENTER FOR ADULT LEARNING & LITERACY: $28,000 · OtherTHE NEWLAND CENTER FOR ADULT LEARNING & LITERACYVERA HOUSE INC: $25,000 · OtherVERA HOUSE INCIndividual grant recipient: $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJUBILEE HOMES: $13,988 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $13,650 · Other+61 more: $197,142 · Other+61 moreGenesee Land Trust Inc: $81,500 · EnvironmentGenesee Land Trust …The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentThe Finger Lakes La…Rochester Ecology Partners Inc: $5,000 · Environment+2 more: $2,357 · EnvironmentRochester Institute of Technology: $37,250 · EducationRochester Insti…NORTH SIDE LEARNING CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $35,000 · EducationNORTH SIDE LEAR…DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 · EducationDC PUBLIC EDUCA…+1 more: $1,981 · EducationJUBILEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC: $14,550 · Housing & ShelterStepping Stones Shelter Inc: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterSYRACUSE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $501 · Housing & ShelterSADA-Charity Preview Inc: $12,250 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO FILM SOCIETY FYE 531: $7,500 · Arts & CultureGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTILLPOINT RETREATS INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$336,780Environment$98,857Education$79,231Housing & Shelter$18,051Philanthropy$17,750Arts & Culture$12,500Religion$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGenesee Land Trust Inc: $81,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $37,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SIDE LEARNING CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $35,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVERA HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUBILEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC: $14,550 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $13,650 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSADA-Charity Preview Inc: $12,250 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VOICE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSTILLPOINT RETREATS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOLORADO FILM SOCIETY FYE 531: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL DISTRICT GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRochester Ecology Partners Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEEPING OUR PROMISE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOLVE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCIVICPULSE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAUTISMUP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPEPRINT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGay Alliance of the Genesee Valley Inc: $2,632 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMK Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetONONDAGA EARTH CORPS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAYSTAR FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN D/B/A DAYSTAR KIDS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStepping Stones Shelter Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONONDAGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,981 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MCALISTER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $357 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Genesee Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SIDE LEARNING CENTER OF SYRACUSE ↗
  • Who funds VERA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds SADA-Charity Preview Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE VOICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STILLPOINT RETREATS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO FILM SOCIETY FYE 531 ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL DISTRICT GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Ecology Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
  • Who funds KEEPING OUR PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds RESOLVE OF GREATER ROCHESTER 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rochester Area Commun…Central New York Comm…The Rosamond Gifford …Greater Rochester Hea…Esl Charitable Founda…Allyn Family Foundati…United Way of Greater…JM McDonald Foundatio…Mother Cabrini Health…The John Ben Snow Fou…Max and Marian Farash…Waldron Rise Foundati…
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY24.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc

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 Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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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    How do I get to Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation Inc 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 86 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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