How much does Romenesa Foundation give?

Romenesa Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $246,437 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Romenesa Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (25%), Religion (14%).

Who are Romenesa Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gillen Brewer School ($203k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($160k), Riverdale Country School Inc ($95k).

Does Romenesa Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Romenesa 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 Romenesa Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Romenesa Foundation based?

Romenesa Foundation is based in NY.

Romenesa Foundation

Romenesa Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Romenesa 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.

$246k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$558kEducation$485kReligion$276kHealth$194kHuman Services$157kEnvironment$121kFood & Nutrition$73kInternational$20kOther$0

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k23 grants · $77k
$10k–50k11 grants · $170k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS	$30,250
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL NYC	$29,450
THE FRANKLIN ACADEMY	$25,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART	$15,000
NEW YORK ZEN CENTER	$10,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST	$10,000
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL	$10,000
THE BRIGID ALLIANCE	$10,000
PART OF THE SOLUTION	$10,000
THE RETREAT	$10,000
PARRISH ART MUSEUM	$10,000
NORTH SEA MARITIME CENTER FOR DONATOIN	$6,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET	$5,500
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART	$5,000
THE WORLD AROUND INC	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 43 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+17%

Still filing today

67%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

GB
GILLEN BREWER SCHOOL
5× · 2017–2021 · $203k · revenue +2%
MM
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +58%
RC
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +37%

Funded once

AG
ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -68%
AA
ASPEN ART MUSEUM
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -62%
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +36%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

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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The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture

New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture

Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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The Neue Galerie New York

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 82 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/61

Grantees still filing

47/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$597,051Arts & Culture$519,050Education$471,500Environment$115,000Food & Nutrition$110,000Human Services$94,530International$32,000

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

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY17.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Corner Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Romenesa Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Romenesa 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home