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Robert & Nina Rosenthal Foundation Inc at a glance

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Robert & Nina Rosenthal Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$383k
Granted FY2017
20
Grants FY2017
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY$30,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$25,000
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS$25,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$25,000
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$20,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$10,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MARITIME ACADEMY$10,000
CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
THANKS USA$10,000
TALLADEGA COLLEGE$10,000
BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
PA
CA
KY
VA
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & …+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesPRAGER UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherPRAGER UNIVERSITYFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $25,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RI…CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUN…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MARITIME ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY …THANKS USA: $10,000 · OtherTHANKS USATalladega College: $10,000 · OtherTalladega College+1 more: $2,500 · OtherMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCH…BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationBETHUNE-COOKMAN …ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLL…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDA…The Charlemagne Institute: $5,000 · EducationThe Charlemagne …TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthTOWER CANCER RES…PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $4,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERA…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE …Leadership Institute: $20,000 · Public BenefitLeadership In…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHumane World for Animals Inc: $4,000 · Animals
Human Services$102,000Other$97,500Education$55,000Health$54,000Public Benefit$45,000Arts & Culture$25,000Animals$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHANKS USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTalladega College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charlemagne Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert & Nina Rosenthal Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Nina Rosenthal Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Bethune-Cookman University: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Robert & Nina Rosenthal Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Robert & Nina Rosenthal Foundation Inc 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.

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 20 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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