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Rosa 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.

$408
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$311
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$6kReligion$4kEnvironment$4kYouth Development$3kHousing & Shelter$3kCrime & Legal$3kRecreation & Sports$2kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$311
Median grant
2
States reached
$560k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Magenta Theater Co$311
Individual grant recipient$97
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Every Body Athletics: $1k → 8%LoveOne Community: $1k → 8%HomePlate Youth Services: $1k → 8%LoveOne Community: $1k → 8%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 8 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$20k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
0%

Still filing today

63%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $408 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • YC
    YAMHILL COUNTY CASA PROGRAM
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +170%
  • SC
    SEABECK CONFERENCE CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +88%
  • L
    Loveone
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +334%

Funded once

  • HA
    HARMONY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +266%
  • UC
    UMV Camp and Retreat
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • EVERY BODY ATHLETICS
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.

1
Oregon Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal
2
Elevate Oregon

Elevating potential, building sustained relationships with urban youth, and charting paths to brighter futures.

Youth Development
3
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
4
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
5
Oregon Business Academy

Preparing high school students for success in college career and life through experiential business education.

Youth Development
6
Home Court Nw
Recreation & Sports
7
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.

Education
8
Fair Housing Council of Oregon

FHCO is a statewide civil rights organization whose mission is to end illegal housing discrimination and promote equal access to housing choice through education and enforcement of fair housing law.

Unclassified
9
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
10
Ywca of Olympia

YWCA Olympia is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering those impacted by oppression.

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11
Eclb

Every Child mobilizes community to support children and families impacted by foster care in Linn, Benton, Lincoln.

Human Services
12
Oregon Technology Business Center

To encourage economic development in the city of beaverton and throughout the state of oregon by providing both in-person and video-delivered mentoring workshops, networking, introduction, and investment services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeplate Youth Services; the most unlike its peers is Oregon Environmental Council. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chemeketa Community College: $5,500 · OtherChemeketa Community CollegeUMC Camp and Retreat: $2,400 · OtherUMC Camp and RetreatUMV Camp and Retreat: $1,000 · OtherUMV Camp and RetreatGive a Little Foundation: $1,000 · OtherGive a Little FoundationHomePlate Youth Servcies: $1,000 · OtherHomePlate Youth ServciesMcMinnville Performing Arts: $400 · Other+1 more: $97 · OtherLoveone: $2,000 · Human ServicesLoveoneEVERY BODY ATHLETICS: $1,000 · Human ServicesEVERY BODY ATHLET…HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOMEPLATE YOUTH S…Oregon Environmental Council: $3,100 · EnvironmentOregon Enviro…YAMHILL COUNTY CASA PROGRAM: $2,500 · Civil RightsYAMHILL CO…SEABECK CONFERENCE CENTER: $2,000 · ReligionGIRLS BUILD: $1,100 · Youth DevelopmentHARMONY ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationOREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPORATION: $500 · Arts & CultureMagenta Theater: $311 · Arts & Culture
Other$11,397Human Services$4,000Environment$3,100Civil Rights$2,500Religion$2,000Youth Development$1,100Education$1,000Arts & Culture$811

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOregon Environmental Council: $3,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYAMHILL COUNTY CASA PROGRAM: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEABECK CONFERENCE CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLoveone: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS BUILD: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARMONY ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY BODY ATHLETICS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Oregon Community …The Roundhouse Founda…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…M J Murdock Charitabl…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Rosa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rosa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Harmony Academy: 70% of income from government
  • Homeplate Youth Services: 17% of income from government
  • Loveone: 12% of income from government
  • Yamhill County Casa Program: 3% of income from government
  • Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Rosa Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rosa 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.

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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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