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Rosenthal Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$400k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.1MCrime & Legal$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$1.0MCivil Rights$474kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$400,000
PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK$210,000
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER$200,000
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL$200,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF GREATER CINTI$200,000
FREESTORE FOOD BANK$130,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SW OHIO$100,000
FIRST STEP HOME$100,000
WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS$75,000
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN$75,000
HER CINCINNATI$75,000
UNITED WAY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ARTSWAVE$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $690k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIRST STEP HOME: $100k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $100k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $100k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $50k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $35k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $35k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $35k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $5k → 16%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS: $10k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $75k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $75k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $35k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $25k → 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 29 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
31

Total granted

$11M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+58%

Still filing today

66%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $575k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FF
    FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +50%
  • TF
    THE FIRST STEP HOME INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $420k · revenue +22%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $420k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CM
    CINCINNATI MUSIC HALL
    one grant, 2019 · $202k
  • HH
    HOME HOUSING OPPORTUNITY MADE EQUAL
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • LS
    LA SOUPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +136%
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
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
2
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
3
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

—
4
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
5
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
6
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…

Human Services
7
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

—
8
Cincinnati Parks Foundation

To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.

Recreation & Sports
9
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

—
10
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
11
Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter
12
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber Foundation

To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Harpswell Foundation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 65 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
33/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1,340,000 · OtherOHIO INNOCENCE PROJECTUNITED WAY: $900,000 · OtherUNITED WAYLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF GREATER CINTI: $650,000 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF GREATER CINTIPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHWEST OHIO: $450,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHWEST OHIOAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INC: $420,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INCWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $410,000 · OtherWOMEN HELPING WOMENIndividual grant recipient: $320,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC: $250,000 · OtherWORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS: $225,000 · Other+29 more: $1,610,786 · Other+29 moreCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $1,650,012 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Playhouse in…The Contemporary Arts Center: $600,000 · Arts & CultureThe Contemporary Arts C…Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $335,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Institute of…MINDFUL MOMENT: $110,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $95,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $45,000 · Arts & CultureFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,440,127 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FO…LA SOUPE INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionLA SOUPE INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $246,447 · PhilanthropyTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $420,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Union Bethel: $210,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $35,000 · Human Services+3 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL OF GREATER: $400,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI IN: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterBethany House Services Inc: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterTeach for America Inc: $175,000 · EducationDOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationThe Mercantile Library: $10,000 · Education
Other$6,575,786Arts & Culture$2,835,012Food & Nutrition$1,540,127Philanthropy$896,447Human Services$690,000Housing & Shelter$670,000Education$220,000

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 budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $1,650,012 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,440,127 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center: $600,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $420,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INC: $420,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $410,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL OF GREATER: $400,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $335,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $250,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC: $250,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $246,447 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS: $225,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel: $210,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $175,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI IN: $150,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMINDFUL MOMENT: $110,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCINCINNATI RECYCLING AND REUSE HUB: $95,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $95,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAbortion Fund of Ohio: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE HARPSWELL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCincinnati Area Senior Services Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMILL CREEK ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEvery Child Succeeds: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mercantile Library: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $4,400 over 2y, 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 Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
  • Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL OF GREATER ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI IN ↗
  • Who funds MINDFUL MOMENT ↗
  • Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI RECYCLING AND REUSE HUB ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds Abortion Fund of Ohio ↗
  • Who funds THE HARPSWELL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Carol Ann and Ralph V…John a Schroth Family…The Greater Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…United Way of Greater…Pfau Charitable Found…The Thomas J Emery Me…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…William P Anderson Fo…The Wohlgemuth Hersch…Robert a & Marian K K…Duke Energy Foundation
Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr FoundationOH48.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Pfau Charitable Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Duke Energy 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 Rosenthal Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rosenthal Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%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
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Rosenthal Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rosenthal 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 65 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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