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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL$10,000
MAINE NEEDS$10,000
PREBLE STREET LEARNING COLLABORATIVE (PSLC)$8,000
IN HER PRESENCE$6,000
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,000
ISLAND INSTITUTE$6,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–25, $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. Its 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
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

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ID
NY
MA
WY
PA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.
$1.1M · 35 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

+46%
+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
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

  • 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 +93%

Funded once

  • LA
    LEWISTON-AUBURN AREA RESPONSE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • SC
    SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +75%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -1%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EnvironmentTHE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL: $38,000 · EducationPUEBLO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $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 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 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 budgetOPEN CITY ADVOCATES: $41,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $41,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $39,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL: $38,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPUEBLO CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 5y, 11% 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 budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetWind River Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Place: $1,000 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.

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.

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

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 Rossetter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rossetter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    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

    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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