· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| CHILDREN'S PLACE INTERNATIONAL | $90,000 |
| AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT | $50,000 |
| EDUCATION REIMAGINED | $34,000 |
| ALBANY PARK THEATER PROJECT | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA - WBEZ | $25,000 |
| NEW DEAL FORUM | $25,000 |
| COMPASSION & CHOICES | $25,000 |
| LEAD GUITAR | $20,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $10,000 |
| TURNOUT ACTIVISM | $10,000 |
| THE NORA PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOMPASSION & CHOICES5× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +73%
- TPTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $205k · revenue +49%
- TNTHE NEWDEAL FORUM7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +390%
Funded once
- FSFull Spectrum Features NFPgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +148%
- CCCHICAGO CONSORTIUM FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT - UICone grant, 2021 · $50k
- BCBRAZIL CHILD HEALTH INCone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -31%
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.
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.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
Issue one is the leading crosspartisan political reform organization that educates the public, engages capitol hill, and advocates for solutions to fix our broken political system.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWDEAL FORUM ↗
- Who funds LEAD GUITAR ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REIMAGINED ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Full Spectrum Features NFP ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Albany Park Theater Project ↗
- Who funds BRAZIL CHILD HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NORA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds Touchstones Discussion Project Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds INFINITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rossman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rossman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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