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Rosenau Family Research Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
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 2024.

Health$8.0MEducation$2.0MScience & Tech$472k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$125,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Duke University$250,000
University of Connecticut Health Ce$175,049
Biomedical Research Institute of NJ$149,154
Nationwide Children's Hospital$125,000
University of Illinois$125,000
University of Minnesota$125,000
University of Pittsburgh$125,000
University of Buffalo$125,000
KrabbeConnect$123,982
University of Illinois$85,000
University of Pennsylvania$60,000
University of Illinois$60,000
University of Illinois$60,000
University of Kansas$59,593
Mayo Clinic$57,359
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KrabbeConnect: $124k → 6%University of Minnesota: $125k → 11%University of Pittsburgh: $500k → 11%University of Buffalo: $206k → 13%University of Wisconsin: $245k → 10%Nationwide Children's Hospital: $125k → 15%Children's Hospital of Chicago: $400k → 14%University of Illinois: $180k → 19%Biomedical Research Institute of NJ: $140k → 4%KrabbeConnect: $123k → 6%University of Minnesota Medical Sch: $105k → 11%University of Pittsburgh: $443k → 11%Univeristy of Buffalo: $200k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $244k → 10%University of Illinois: $180k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $158k → 19%Biomedical Research Institute of NJ: $132k → 4%University of Pittsburgh: $175k → 11%University of Buffalo: $198k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $227k → 10%University of Illinois: $180k → 14%BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NJ: $122k → 4%University of Pittsburgh: $125k → 11%Thomas Jefferson University: $128k → 22%University of Buffalo: $183k → 13%University of Illinois: $159k → 14%Biomedical Research Institute of NJ: $149k → 4%Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: $476k → 11%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $126k → 22%University of Buffalo: $125k → 13%University of Illinois: $149k → 14%Biomedical Research Institute of NJ: $130k → 4%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH: $394k → 11%University of Buffalo: $122k → 13%University of Illinois: $142k → 14%Biomedical Research Institute of NJ: $125k → 4%Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: $374k → 11%University of Illinois: $125k → 14%Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: $374k → 11%University of Illinois: $125k → 14%Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: $181k → 11%University of Illinois: $85k → 14%Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: $181k → 11%University of Illinois: $85k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH: $176k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH: $136k → 11%Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: $103k → 11%Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: $96k → 11%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
KS
NC
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 11 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$9.0M
$731k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+111%

Still filing today

36%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +28%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $254k · revenue +127%
  • K
    KRABBECONNECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $247k · revenue +6% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital of Chicago
    one grant, 2023 · $400k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • UO
    University of Minnesota Medical Sch
    one grant, 2020 · $105k
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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
5
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
8
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
9
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
10
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Krabbeconnect. 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

8 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. 8 of the 22 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: $2,559,900 · OtherChildren's Hospital of PittsburghUniversity of Illinois: $2,032,499 · OtherUniversity of IllinoisUniversity of Buffalo: $833,817 · OtherUniversity of BuffaloBiomedical Research Institute of NJ: $797,316 · OtherBiomedical Research Institute of NJUniversity of Wisconsin: $717,045 · OtherUniversity of WisconsinChildren's Hospital of Chicago: $400,000 · Other+8 more: $872,963 · Other+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,243,222 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBU…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $253,656 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIV…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $184,575 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…+2 more: $40,540 · EducationKRABBECONNECT: $246,690 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $57,359 · Health
Other$8,213,540Education$1,971,993Health$304,049

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,243,222 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $253,656 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKRABBECONNECT: $246,690 over 2y, 42% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $184,575 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $57,359 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $35,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $4,790 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KRABBECONNECT ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Rosenau Family Research Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rosenau Family Research 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 22 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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