How much does Rossi Family Foundation give?

Rossi Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $152,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Rossi Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Human Services (17%), Environment (17%).

Who are Rossi Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arthritis Research Coalition ($103k), Children of Strength ($95k), Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation ($85k).

Does Rossi Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rossi Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rossi Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.

Where is Rossi Family Foundation based?

Rossi Family Foundation is based in CA.

Rossi Family Foundation

Rossi Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Rossi Family 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.

$152k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$220kHuman Services$173kEnvironment$167kInternational$112kEducation$80kRecreation & Sports$49kArts & Culture$45kScience & Tech$39kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $54k
$10k–50k7 grants · $98k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY	$25,000
CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION	$15,000
COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN	$15,000
ARTHRITIS RESEARCH COALITION	$12,400
CITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO	$11,000
CHILDREN OF STRENGTH	$10,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM	$10,000
TREEPEOPLE	$8,000
GATHERING FOR WOMEN	$8,000
YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY	$7,500
EL TIMPANO	$5,000
INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC	$5,000
PINECONE THE PIED COUNCIL	$5,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENT	$5,000
STAND UP PLACER	$4,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$791k · 31 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 10 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

Total granted

$791k

$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+13%

Still filing today

71%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureOther

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

CO
CHILDREN OF STRENGTH
9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +14%
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +67%
GH
Gilead House
7× · 2017–2023 · $76k · revenue +11%

Funded once

N
NATUREBRIDGE
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +11%
HH
Hope Horses Kids
one grant, 2019 · $12k
MH
MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -76%

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.

Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services

San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education

California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment

Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health

San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment

California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

Health

The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health

Marin Community Clinic

To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is City Hope San Francisco. 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

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 64 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/48

Grantees still filing

32/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$371,264Health$155,400Human Services$116,000Animals$100,500International$97,500Housing & Shelter$76,000Environment$73,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Rossi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rossi Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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By state

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