Arizona · Private foundation
Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $330k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 19
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $330k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $300k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $300k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $280k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $250k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Food Bank Inc | $175,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gospel Rescue Mission Inc | $175,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Interfaith Community Services | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tucson Synchro Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 61% |
| Youth on Their Own | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Felicia's Farm Fka Izi Azi Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Casa de Los Ninos | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Watershed Management Group Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Food Bank Inc | $175,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gospel Rescue Mission Inc | $175,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Interfaith Community Services | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tucson Synchro Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 61% |
| Youth on Their Own | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Felicia's Farm Fka Izi Azi Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Casa de Los Ninos | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Watershed Management Group Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Native Seedssouthwestern Endangered | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Hard Hitters for the Kingdom Inc | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Special Needs Solutions | $30,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Sister Jose Women's Center | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| La Paloma Family Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($475k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Social Venture Partners Tucson · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Community Food Bank Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc
How this is measured
About Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation
- How much does Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation give?
- Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $330,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Community Food Bank Inc ($175k), Gospel Rescue Mission Inc ($175k), Interfaith Community Services ($80k).
- Does Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lester & Millie Rosen 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 Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Social Venture Partners Tucson, The Hs Lopez Family Foundation.
- Where is Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation based?
- Lester & Millie Rosen Foundation is based in AZ.
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