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Rosenberg Ach 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.

$476k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$134k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$1.4MHealth$1.2MSocial Science$475kEducation$334kArts & Culture$145kEmployment$33kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $359k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Nature Conservancy$134,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$100,000
Trout Unlimited$75,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
San Francisco Film Society (SFFILM)$30,000
Urban School$20,000
Reproductive Freedom for All (NARAL)$15,000
10000 Degrees$5,100
Golden State Opportunity Fund$5,000
Greenlight Clinic$5,000
New Israel Fund$5,000
Henry's Fork Foundation$5,000
Students Rising Above (SRA)$5,000
Sustainable Conservation$5,000
SF Jazz$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Sweetwater Spectrum: $5k → 9%Sweetwater Spectrum: $5k → 9%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $5k → 8%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $5k → 8%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 29 repeat orgs$760k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
39

Total granted

$2.8M
$645k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+9%

Still filing today

48%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
EducationEnvironmentHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $475k · revenue +6%
  • TB
    THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE
    3× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +240%
  • TT
    The Thacher School Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • UN
    UCSF - NERUOSCIENCES INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • UR
    UCSF - RAFF
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • RL
    RESOURCES LEGACY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +114%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
2
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
3
The Salish Sea School

The salish sea schools mission is to awaken curiosity and deepen connections with the sea through shore and sea exploration programs for all ages.

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
6
Fishery Foundation of California

To improve fisheries resources in the state of california.

Animals
7
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
10
California Trout Inc

Caltrout's mission is ensuring healthy water and resilient wild fish for a better california. we share a common vision of a california where healthy waters flow from headwaters to sea. where the diversity and resilience of our waters and…

Animals
11
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
12
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is Donner Summit Avalanche Dogs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Government Accountability R…Classical Music EnsemblesSubstance Abuse TreatmentJewish Community FederationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionChristian Youth CampsPublic School District Foun…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Cancer Support OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Community Arts OrganizationsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Developmental Disabilities …Education Equity LeadershipIndependent K-8 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%58%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%18%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,938

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
27/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $902,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA — $475,000 · OtherPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIAUCSF CHANCELLOR'S FUND — $325,000 · OtherUCSF CHANCELLOR'S FUNDUCSF - NERUOSCIENCES INITIATIVE — $200,000 · OtherUCSF - NERUOSCIENCES INITIATIVEUCSF - RAFF — $200,000 · OtherUCSF - RAFFTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $157,000 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITED — $100,000 · Other+46 more — $636,718 · Other+46 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CAL…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE — $35,000 · EducationTHE BREAKTHROUGH …The Thacher School Inc — $34,500 · EducationThe Thacher Schoo…10000 DEGREES — $20,300 · Education+4 more — $7,000 · EducationRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $50,000 · EnvironmentSustainable Conservation — $20,100 · EnvironmentGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $12,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $10,000 · EnvironmentTen Strands — $7,500 · Environment+1 more — $500 · EnvironmentSUMMER SEARCH — $32,500 · EmploymentSWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION — $19,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $2,500 · Arts & CultureTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $10,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTER — $6,000 · AnimalsKEEP FISH WET INC — $1,000 · Animals
Other$2,996,218Education$596,800Environment$100,600Employment$32,500Human Services$25,000Arts & Culture$22,000Animals$17,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA — $475,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $157,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED aka THE ARIZONA COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED INC — $75,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE — $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc — $34,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC — $29,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budget10000 DEGREES — $20,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Conservation — $20,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION — $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER CREEK ALLIANCE INC — $13,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $12,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTen Strands — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeritus College Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOACHING CORPS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT CLINIC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Outside — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP FISH WET INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR CLIMATE — $500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMICHAEL HARRIS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED aka THE ARIZONA COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED INC
  • Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND
  • Who funds THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE
  • Who funds The Thacher School Inc
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH
  • Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES
  • Who funds Sustainable Conservation
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds SILVER CREEK ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds GREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco FoundationCA30× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Swig Foundation · Oberndorf Family Foundation · Esb Charitable Foundation · Laural Foundation · Ishiyama Foundation · The Griffith Family Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Rosenberg Ach Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 49%
  • Wild Salmon Center49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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