Illinois · Private foundation
Rossman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $563k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Rossman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $533k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $465k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $575k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $557k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $466k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $503k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $487k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $496k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civic Leadership Foundation | $1,759,425 | 8 | 45% |
| Childrens Place Association | $397,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Compassion & Choices | $215,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Posse Foundation Inc | $205,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Newdeal Forum | $175,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Lead Guitar | $170,500 | 8 | 9% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $128,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Education Reimagined | $105,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The American Exchange Project Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($344k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rossman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · American Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc
How this is measured
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About Rossman Family Foundation
- How much does Rossman Family Foundation give?
- Rossman Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $562,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Rossman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (48%), Arts & Culture (12%), Education (12%).
- Who are Rossman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Civic Leadership Foundation ($1.8M), Childrens Place Association ($397k), Compassion & Choices ($215k).
- Does Rossman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rossman 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 Rossman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Rossman Family Foundation based?
- Rossman Family Foundation is based in IL.
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