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Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation

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.

$59k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$23,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$72k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$59k25%
FY20234$62k0%
FY20224$63k25%
FY202111$21k73%
FY202010$114k100%
FY20185$32kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$148kCommunity Improvement$137kYouth Development$32kPhilanthropy$24kHuman Services$5kReligion$4kArts & Culture$3kHealth$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
East Liberty Development Inc$88,70043%
Serenity Living Transitional Home$77,790594%
Allegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods-Housing Incorporated$70,00040%
Neighborhood Allies Inc$42,32820%
Gwens Girls Inc$30,0001n/a
Ujamaa Collective$4,40212%
The Pittsburgh Contingency Inc$2,52010%
1hood Media Academy Inc$2,00010%
Go Girls Incorporated$1,5001n/a
The@Allignment Chapter$1,5001n/a
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All grantees of Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
East Liberty Development Inc$88,70043%
Serenity Living Transitional Home$77,790594%
Allegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods-Housing Incorporated$70,00040%
Neighborhood Allies Inc$42,32820%
Gwens Girls Inc$30,0001n/a
Ujamaa Collective$4,40212%
The Pittsburgh Contingency Inc$2,52010%
1hood Media Academy Inc$2,00010%
Go Girls Incorporated$1,5001n/a
The@Allignment Chapter$1,5001n/a
Melanin Mommies Inc$1,5001n/a
For Good Pgh$1,00010%
Assemble Inc$1,00020%
Pittsburgh Action Against Rape$51810%
East End Cooperative Ministry$50010%
Center for Victims$5001n/a
Repair the World$36910%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEast Liberty Development Inc: $88,700 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSerenity Living Transitional Home: $77,790 over 5y, 94% of budgetAllegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods-Housing Incorporated: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Allies Inc: $42,328 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUjamaa Collective: $4,402 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Pittsburgh Contingency Inc: $2,520 over 1y, 0.2% of budget1hood Media Academy Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFor Good Pgh: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAssemble Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPittsburgh Action Against Rape: $518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Cooperative Ministry: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRepair the World: $369 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 12.

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 Pittsburgh FoundationPA38.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · Poise Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Fisa Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · McAuley Ministries · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise 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 Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation

How much does Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation give?
Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $58,518 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (42%), Community Improvement (38%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: East Liberty Development Inc ($89k), Serenity Living Transitional Home ($78k), Allegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods-Housing Incorporated ($70k).
Does Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation 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 Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Opportunity Foundation, The Heinz Endowments.
Where is Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation based?
Laura and Jason Rock Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 27 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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