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Rose Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$661k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$529kHealth$449kAnimals$355kFood & Nutrition$353kPhilanthropy$75kArts & Culture$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CLEO INSTITUTE$150,000
FARM SANCTUARY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
SENECA LAKE FOUNDATION$75,000
TRANSPLANTING TRADITIONS$75,000
CENTRAL NY LYME AND TICK ALLIANCE$75,000
BROUHAHA$61,376
CLARK FORK COALITION$50,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $35k → 11%EASTIE FARMS: $136k → 16%CLARK FORK COALITION: $50k → 9%HUICHOL CENTER FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND TRADITIONAL ART: $50k → 10%HUDSONIA LTD: $788 → 9%SENECA LAKE FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%FARM SANCTUARY: $100k → 12%CENTRAL NY LYME & TICKBORNE: $75k → 14%EQUICENTER INC: $89k → 14%THE CLEO INSTITUTE: $150k → 15%TRANSPLANTING TRADITIONS: $75k → 13%EASTIE FARM INC: $50k → 16%CLARK FORK COALITION: $50k → 9%SENECA LAKE PURE WATERS: $44k → 10%FARM SANCTUARY: $75k → 12%CENTRAL NY LYME AND TICK ALLIANCE: $75k → 14%EQUICENTER INC: $70k → 14%BROUHAHA: $61k → 13%EASTIE FARM INC: $50k → 16%CLARK FORK COALITION: $50k → 9%SENECA LAKE GUARDIAN: $50k → 12%EQUICENTER INC: $70k → 14%TRANSPLANTING TRADITIONS COMMUNITY FARM: $12k → 13%SAVE THE HARBOR: $75k → 16%CLARK FORK COALITION: $50k → 9%EQUICENTER INC: $50k → 14%EASTIE FARM INC: $30k → 16%EQUICENTER INC: $20k → 14%SAVE THE HARBOURSAVE THE BAY: $50k → 16%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 7 repeat orgs$741k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +138% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$1.2M
$304k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+36%

Still filing today

86%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • EI
    EQUICENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $299k · revenue +181%
  • FS
    FARM SANCTUARY INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +7%
  • MB
    MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM
    2× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • CN
    CENTRAL NY LYME & TICKBORNE
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • ST
    SAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +20%
  • SL
    SENECA LAKE GUARDIAN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · 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.

1
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
2
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
3
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
4
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
5
Sustainable Conservation Inc

Sustainable conservation, inc works with the conservation fund, a nonprofit corporation, to create partnerships with the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to protect the outdoor heritage of the united states.

Environment
6
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
Heartlands Conservancy

The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.

Environment
8
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
9
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
12
Boston Food Forest Coalition

At the intersection of racial equity and climate resilience, the boston food forest coalition is a community of neighbors transforming vacant lots into public edible parks called "food forests" for permanent protection and community…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastie Farm Inc; the most unlike its peers is Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE: $80,000 · OtherMISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSECENTRAL NY LYME & TICKBORNE: $75,000 · OtherCENTRAL NY LYME & TICKBORNEIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCENTRAL NY LYME AND TICK ALLIANCE: $75,000 · OtherCENTRAL NY LYME AND TICK ALL…SENECA LAKE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherSENECA LAKE FOUNDATIONBROUHAHA: $61,376 · OtherBROUHAHASENECA LAKE PURE WATERS: $43,500 · OtherSENECA LAKE PURE WATERS+1 more: $788 · OtherCLARK FORK COALITION: $200,000 · EnvironmentCLARK FORK COALITIONTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INCSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY …SENECA LAKE GUARDIAN INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentSENECA LAKE GUARDIAN INCBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $35,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITIONEASTIE FARM INC: $266,000 · Food & NutritionEASTIE FARM INCTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $87,000 · Food & NutritionTransplanting Tradit…EQUICENTER INC: $298,500 · HealthEQUICENTER INCFARM SANCTUARY INC: $175,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY I…MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM: $100,000 · AnimalsMISSOULA BUTTERF…HUICHOL CENTER FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND TRADITIONAL ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$485,664Environment$485,000Food & Nutrition$353,000Health$298,500Animals$275,000Arts & Culture$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEQUICENTER INC: $298,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetEASTIE FARM INC: $266,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetCLARK FORK COALITION: $200,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM: $100,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $87,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSENECA LAKE GUARDIAN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHUICHOL CENTER FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND TRADITIONAL ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Heineman Foundation f…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Heineman Foundation for Research EducationalNY15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heineman Foundation for Research Educational · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Eastie Farm Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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, FY20–24
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 Rose Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rose Family 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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