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Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust

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.

$162k
Granted FY2019
17
Grants FY2019
16
Organizations funded FY2019
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100% of Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $162k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

13
’19
22
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$20,000
States reached, FY2019
5
Total assets, FY2019
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.8MAnimals$130kEnvironment$126kEducation$100kHuman Services$86kHealth$58kInternational$40kReligion$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yaffed Inc$70,00026%
Last Chance for Animals$50,00022%
Acadia Center$50,00022%
Prison Dharma Network Inc$40,00015%
Footsteps Inc$40,00021%
Challenge Day Fund$30,00011%
Holistic Life Foundation Inc$26,00012%
Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc$20,0001n/a
Center for Safety & Change Inc$20,00010%
Rainforest Trust$20,00010%
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Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYaffed Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetLast Chance for Animals: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAcadia Center: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPrison Dharma Network Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFootsteps Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetChallenge Day Fund: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHolistic Life Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCenter for Safety & Change Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRainforest Trust: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Reciprocity Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetWildaid Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Rivers Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gentle Barn Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAgape International Missions: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Health Defense: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVolunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGirls Educational and Mentoring Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBerkshire Nursing Families Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLL Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInward Bound Mindfulness Education Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMindfulness First: $6,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCovenant House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

The Ford FoundationNY14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust

How much does Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust give?
Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust reported 17 grants totaling $162,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing.
What does Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (88%), Animals (2%), Environment (2%).
Who are Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2020: Yaffed Inc ($70k), Last Chance for Animals ($50k), Acadia Center ($50k).
Does Joshua Rosenthal 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 Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Network for Good, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust based?
Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 33 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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