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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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YAFFED INC | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL GREENSGRANTS FUND | $10,000 |
| CHARITY WATER | $10,000 |
| ARCADIA CENTER | $10,000 |
| GENTLE BARN | $10,000 |
| CLL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $10,000 |
| GEMS - GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| LAST CHANCE FOR ANIMALS | $10,000 |
| AGAPE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS | $10,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $10,000 |
| SEMPER FI FUND | $10,000 |
| FOOTSTEPS INC | $10,000 |
| HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| RECIPROCITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ACAcadia Center2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +101%
- FIFOOTSTEPS INC2× · 2019–2020 · $40k · revenue +49%
- TGTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- PDPrison Dharma Network Incone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -10%
- CDCHALLENGE DAY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -91%
- HLHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Defense and the most unlike its peers is Last Chance for Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds YAFFED INC ↗
- Who funds Acadia Center ↗
- Who funds Last Chance for Animals ↗
- Who funds Prison Dharma Network Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE DAY FUND ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Reciprocity Foundation ↗
- Who funds Agape International Missions ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds CLL Society ↗
- Who funds INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINDFULNESS FIRST ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Joshua Rosenthal Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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