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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN | $15,000 |
| CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ARTHRITIS RESEARCH COALITION | $12,400 |
| CITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO | $11,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN OF STRENGTH | $10,000 |
| GATHERING FOR WOMEN | $8,000 |
| TREEPEOPLE | $8,000 |
| YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY | $7,500 |
| PINECONE THE PIED COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENT | $5,000 |
| EL TIMPANO | $5,000 |
| STAND UP PLACER | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- COCHILDREN OF STRENGTH9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +14%
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +67%- GHGilead House7× · 2017–2023 · $76k · revenue +274%
Funded once
- NNATUREBRIDGEone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +11%
- HHHope Horses Kidsone grant, 2019 · $12k
- COCity of Petaluma CAone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
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,…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
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,…
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,…
To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Rescue Mission and 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.
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 30 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 64 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 ARTHRITIS RESEARCH COALITION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gilead House ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Marine Science Institute ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds SECU FAMILY HOUSE AT UNC HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds STAND UP PLACER INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS BOOKS ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WESLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition On Homelessness ↗
- Who funds ULTRA SPORTS SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JAMAA BIRTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds GATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds Newton's Attic Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
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: 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
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 Rossi Family 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.
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