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Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$98k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
15
Organizations funded FY2021
20%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 22
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 20% of the organizations Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthFood & NutritionOther
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
FY202115$98k20%
FY202015$101k7%
FY201917$106k12%
FY201818$158k11%
FY201722$59kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$248kEducation$125kAnimals$56kFood & Nutrition$23kArts & Culture$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHuman Services$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($325k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedical College of Va Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRichmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $43,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Information Network for Cancer: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFeed More Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuckahoe Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc: $1,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $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 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.

Herndon FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herndon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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Find your warmest path to Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation 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.

About Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation

How much does Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation give?
Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $98,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (47%), Education (24%), Animals (11%).
Who are Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Medical College of Va Foundation ($100k), Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($43k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($20k).
Does Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ralph & Leo Rosenthal 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 Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herndon Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation based?
Ralph & Leo Rosenthal Foundation is based in VA.

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 30 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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