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Rosenberg 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $532k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $476k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE | $220,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| GRACE | $90,833 |
| TIDES CENTER | $60,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| NORTH BAY JOBS WITH JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ALLIANCE SAN DIEGO | $35,000 |
| TIDES ADVOCACY | $35,000 |
| CENTRAL VALLEY IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION COLLABORATIVE | $31,750 |
| TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER | $30,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| AL OTRO LADO | $25,000 |
| UCLA CENTER FOR LABOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| UC BERKELEY CENTER FOR LABOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Rosenberg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +116% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE3× · 2022–2024 · $840k · revenue +56%
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $627k · revenue +516%
- GGRACE4× · 2020–2024 · $607k · revenue +240% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- AFAMITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- UCUCLA CENTER FOR POLICING EQUITYone grant, 2017 · $100k
- CTCHANEY TURNER LEADING EDGE FELLOWSHone grant, 2023 · $83k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Health Foundation. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
131 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 131 of the 188 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRACE ↗
- Who funds The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Anti Police-Terror Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Forward Change ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation ↗
- Who funds Warehouse Worker Resource Center ↗
- Who funds SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds AL OTRO LADO ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley De-Bug ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING OVER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Dignity and Power Now ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds Essie Justice Group ↗
- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BREATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND ↗
- Who funds IMPACT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Weingart Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Tides Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management
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 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.
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.