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Rose Foundation at a glance

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Rose Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MEnvironment$348kHealth$289kAnimals$41kArts & Culture$30kRecreation & Sports$1k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$439k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$3,500
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$2,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$300
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ECOVIVA: $10k → 10%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $300 → 14%RESCUE VILLAGE GEAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY: $15k → 6%SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER: $75k → 17%ECOVIVA: $10k → 10%GEAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY RESCUE VILLAGE: $10k → 6%SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER: $75k → 17%ECOVIVA: $5k → 10%CHAGRIN VALLEY PHA HORSE SHOW INC: $11k → 6%SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER: $75k → 17%ECOVIVA: $10k → 10%CHAGRIN VALLEY PHA HORSE SHOW INC: $5k → 6%SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER: $75k → 17%ECOVIVA: $10k → 10%SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%URBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND: $1k → 17%WOMEN'S COMMITTEE OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA: $50 → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $1.0M → 17%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $75k → 17%HATHWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $75k → 17%HATHWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $75k → 17%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $70k → 17%THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $50k → 17%VELOSANO CANCER RESEARCH FUND (CCF): $500 → 17%CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITIION: $200 → 17%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $200 → 17%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $200 → 17%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $200 → 17%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS RAINBOW CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS RAINBOW CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS RAINBOW CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS RAINBOW CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $20k → 17%CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $3k → 17%CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $2k → 17%CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $2k → 17%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 9 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$2.0M
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+20%

Still filing today

67%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • HB
    HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +1%
  • PS
    Playhouse Square Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +35%
  • CI
    CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • RV
    RESCUE VILLAGE GEAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • GH
    GEAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY RESCUE VILLAGE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
2
The Musical Arts Association

The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
3
Cleveland Pops Orchestra

The cleveland pops orchestra, led by conductor carl topilow, performs the highest quality symphonic pops music to entertain and enrich a wide and diverse audience and provides educational programs to develop an enduring appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
4
Lake Erie Nature and Science Center

Lake erie nature & science center educates and inspires each of us to understand, appreciate, and take responsibility for our natural world. serving more than 100,000 people each year with animal exhibits and programs, planetarium shows,…

Arts & Culture
5
Cleveland Chamber Symphony Council Inc

Music Performance - Performing free concerts of new symphonic music

Arts & Culture
6
Cleveland Chamber Collective

Non-profit organization dedicated to presenting frees concert of Classical Music

Arts & Culture
7
Western Reserve Historical Society

Western reserve historical society preserves and uses its collections, historic sites, and museums to inspire people to discover the american experience by exploring the tangible history of northeast ohio.

Arts & Culture
8
Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation
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9
The Cleveland Modern Dance Association

To be a national model for how a presenting organization serves its community, leveraging the worlds best modern and contemporary dance to inspire and educate audiences, local dancers, and community members.

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10
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
11
The City Club of Cleveland

The city club of cleveland's mission is to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. we do this in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic…

Education
12
The Opera Association of Central Ohio

Opera columbus enriches central ohio by educating, enlightening, and entertaining people of all ages and backgrounds through the live music theatre experience by employing a diverse and far-flung supply of creative talent, ideas and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center At Shaker Lakes; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $1,345,000 · EducationHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL+1 more: $6,500 · EducationCLEVELAND CLINIC: $157,230 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINICUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS RAINBOW CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $80,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINI…ECOVIVA NFP: $45,000 · OtherECOVIVA NFPRESCUE VILLAGE GEAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $10,700 · OtherSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $300,000 · EnvironmentSHAKER LAKES REG…+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentPlayhouse Square Foundation: $23,600 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $50 · Arts & CultureCHAGRIN VALLEY PHA HORSE SHOWS INC: $15,850 · AnimalsURBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $900 · Health
Education$1,351,500Other$357,930Environment$302,500Arts & Culture$23,650Animals$15,850Recreation & Sports$1,000Health$900

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $1,345,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $300,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetECOVIVA NFP: $45,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $23,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHAGRIN VALLEY PHA HORSE SHOWS INC: $15,850 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $900 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
  • Who funds ECOVIVA NFP ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHAGRIN VALLEY PHA HORSE SHOWS INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA FKA WOMENS COMMITTEE OF CLEVE ORCH ↗

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 Cleveland Foundat…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Cleveland FoundationOH13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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