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Rossetter Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$319k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$464kHuman Services$258kEnvironment$248kEducation$224kHealth$119kCrime & Legal$83kCivil Rights$68kArts & Culture$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$6,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$50,000
CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUND$45,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$44,000
ONE22 RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE$16,000
FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT$16,000
COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL$15,000
LEARNING WORKS$15,000
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST$13,000
MAINE NEEDS$10,000
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL$10,000
PREBLE STREET LEARNING COLLABORATIVE (PSLC)$8,000
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,000
ISLAND INSTITUTE$6,000
IN HER PRESENCE$6,000
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 (FY18–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE PLACE: $1k → 9%ONE22 RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 5%LEARNING WORKS: $25k → 7%ONE22 RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 5%LEARNING WORKS: $15k → 7%FAMILY AND INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE C: $12k → 9%ONE22 RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 5%ONE22 RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 5%LEARNING WORKS: $5k → 7%ONE22 RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 5%ONE22 RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 5%MAINE NEEDS: $10k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $8k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $6k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $6k → 7%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 35 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
13

Total granted

$1.1M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+16%

Still filing today

77%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCrime & LegalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • OI
    One22 Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $127k · revenue +84%
  • SI
    SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +19%
  • AD
    ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2021 · $63k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • LA
    LEWISTON-AUBURN AREA RESPONSE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -10%
  • SC
    SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +75%

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
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
2
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
3
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
4
Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc

Rocky Mountain Field Institute conserves and protects public lands in Southern Colorado through volunteer-based trail and restoration projects, environmental education, and restoration research.

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5
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
6
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
7
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
11
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
12
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Government Accountability R…Independent K-8 SchoolsFood Pantries & AssistanceAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Arts OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesNative Hawaiian Community D…Elementary Literacy TutoringWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Veteran Support ServicesPublic University Foundatio…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Land Conservation Organizat…
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,515

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

49 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. 49 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
37/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $208,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY F…VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $201,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PR…THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND — $41,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUNDRose Community Foundation — $39,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation+1 more — $16,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUN — $58,000 · OtherCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY …FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $42,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCWALLKILL VALLEY LAND TRUST — $30,000 · OtherWALLKILL VALLEY LAND TRUSTPRIMARY CARE COALITION OF MONTGOMERY CO INC — $22,500 · OtherPRIMARY CARE COALITION — $20,000 · OtherLEWISTON-AUBURN AREA RESPONSE FUND — $20,000 · OtherCommon Good City Farm — $37,000 · OtherCommon Good City FarmThe Doug Coombs Foundation — $32,000 · OtherThe Doug Coombs FoundationThe Primavera Foundation Inc — $36,000 · OtherThe Primavera Foundation IncPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $22,000 · OtherMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $23,000 · Other+21 more — $160,000 · Other+21 moreOne22 Inc — $127,000 · Human ServicesOne22 IncLEARNINGWORKS — $45,000 · Human ServicesLEARNINGWORKSMaine Needs Inc — $29,500 · Human ServicesMaine Needs In…SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER — $12,000 · Human ServicesNo One Left Behind — $11,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesSKY ISLAND ALLIANCE — $99,000 · EnvironmentSKY ISLAND ALL…ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC — $62,000 · EnvironmentARIZONA LAND A…FULL CIRCLE EDUCATION INC — $34,000 · EnvironmentFULL CIRCLE ED…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $22,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOUR…+1 more — $7,000 · EnvironmentPUEBLO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $38,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL — $38,000 · EducationTETON LITERACY CENTER — $29,000 · EducationIsland Institute — $13,500 · EducationEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EducationFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $8,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Crime & LegalOPEN CITY ADVOCATES — $41,000 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $21,000 · Crime & LegalFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $16,000 · Crime & LegalARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $63,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$505,000Other$502,500Human Services$225,500Environment$224,000Education$135,500Crime & Legal$128,000Arts & Culture$64,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $208,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $201,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOne22 Inc — $127,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSKY ISLAND ALLIANCE — $99,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $63,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC — $62,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNINGWORKS — $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND — $41,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN CITY ADVOCATES — $41,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $39,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUEBLO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $38,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL — $38,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommon Good City Farm — $37,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc — $36,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFULL CIRCLE EDUCATION INC — $34,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation — $32,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWALLKILL VALLEY LAND TRUST — $30,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMaine Needs Inc — $29,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER — $29,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $23,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $21,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center — $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCONTINENTAL DIVIDE LAND TRUST — $14,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetIsland Institute — $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNo One Left Behind — $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKESTREL EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURES INC — $7,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTeens to Trails — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWind River Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Bangor Savings Bank F…Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationJohn T Gorman Foundat…Elmina B Sewall Found…Community Foundation …The Denver FoundationAnschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationAlbert B Glickman Fam…United Way Inc
Colorado Gives FoundationCO19.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · United Way Inc

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 Rossetter 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report 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, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rossetter Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rossetter 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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