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Rosso 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.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$99kEducation$45kRecreation & Sports$38kReligion$37kArts & Culture$30kHealth$20kHuman Services$19kAnimals$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,250
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEXT$10,000
CO Outdoor Educ Sanborn$7,500
SCHOLAR Birmingham Schools$5,000
The Community House$5,000
Torch Lake Protection Alliance$5,000
Oregon Wild$5,000
National PKU Alliance$5,000
Wild Fish Conservancy$3,500
Colorado Outdoor Education Center$2,500
Cascadia Wildlands$2,500
Grass River Natural Area Inc$2,250
TART Trails Inc$2,000
Friends of the Birmingham Museum$2,000
Oregon Natural Desert Association$2,000
The Environmental Center$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE: $9k → 17%FORGOTTEN HARVEST: $3k → 8%PADDLE ANTRIM: $3k → 9%GRAND TRAVERSE LAND CONSERVANCY: $20k → 10%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 21%THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $3k → 10%Oregon Wild: $5k → 12%UMPQUA WATERSHEDS: $6k → 17%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 18%CO Outdoor Educ Sanborn: $8k → 8%WILD FISH CONSERVANCY: $6k → 9%ORCA BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA: $5k → 10%National PKU Alliance: $5k → 17%SCHOLAR Birmingham Schools: $5k → 8%PADDLE ANTRIM: $3k → 9%TART TRAILS: $5k → 10%THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $3k → 10%COLORADO OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 8%Wild Fish Conservancy: $4k → 9%PADDLE ANTRIM: $3k → 9%TART TRAILS: $4k → 10%The Environmental Center: $2k → 10%COLORADO OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 8%BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HOUS: $25k → 8%TART TRAILS: $3k → 10%Oregon Natural Desert Association: $2k → 10%COLORADO OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 8%NEXT: $10k → 8%Torch Lake Protection Alliance: $5k → 9%TART Trails Inc: $2k → 10%Colorado Outdoor Education Center: $3k → 8%NEXT: $7k → 8%TORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HOUS: $7k → 8%GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA: $3k → 9%NEXT: $5k → 8%GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA: $3k → 9%The Community House: $5k → 8%GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA: $3k → 9%NEXT: $5k → 8%Grass River Natural Area Inc: $2k → 9%BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HOUS: $5k → 8%BIRMINGHAM HIST MUSEUM: $3k → 8%BIRMINGHAM HIST MUSEUM: $3k → 8%WATER WORKS THEATER COMPANY INC: $4k → 8%WATER WORKS THEATER COMPANY INC: $3k → 8%WATER WORKS THEATER COMPANY INC: $3k → 8%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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 25 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
8

Total granted

$215k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+13%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsOther
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
    Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +416%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +21%
  • TA
    TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • WS
    WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • OS
    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
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
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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2
Owasco Lake Watershed Management Council Inc

To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…

Environment
3
Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources

The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…

Environment
4
Nd Natural Resources Conservation Trust

To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota

Environment
5
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
6
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…

Environment
7
Native Ecosystems Council

Promote wildlife habitat

Environment
8
Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment
9
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
10
Yaak Valley Forest Council

Working for a wild yaak through science, education, and bold action.

Environment
11
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
12
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cascadia Wildlands; the most unlike its peers is National Pku Alliance Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $37,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEXT: $29,250 · OtherNEXTWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYGRAND TRAVERSE LAND CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE LAND CONSERVANCYTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC: $13,500 · OtherTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INCGRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC: $9,750 · OtherWATER WORKS THEATER COMPANY INC: $8,500 · OtherCO Outdoor Educ Sanborn: $7,500 · OtherBIRMINGHAM HIST MUSEUM: $7,000 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · Other+13 more: $34,250 · Other+13 moreColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $17,750 · EnvironmentColorado Outdoor Education …CASCADIA WILDLANDS: $9,500 · EnvironmentCASCADIA WILDLANDSPADDLE ANTRIM: $9,000 · EnvironmentPADDLE ANTRIMTORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $7,750 · EnvironmentTORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIA…CENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $7,500 · EnvironmentCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTA…TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA: $7,000 · EnvironmentTRUSTEES FOR ALASKAUMPQUA WATERSHEDS: $6,000 · EnvironmentUMPQUA WATERSHEDSOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: $5,000 · EnvironmentOregon Natural Resources Co…RELEAF MICHIGAN INC: $3,000 · Environment+2 more: $3,225 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $14,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $1,000 · HealthWILD FISH CONSERVANCY: $9,500 · AnimalsORCA BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Science & TechFRIENDS OF THE FLATHEAD AVALANCHE CENTER INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsVASA SKI CLUB: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$199,000Environment$75,725Health$15,000Animals$9,500Science & Tech$5,000Recreation & Sports$3,500Food & Nutrition$3,000

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 budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $17,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC: $9,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWILD FISH CONSERVANCY: $9,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASCADIA WILDLANDS: $9,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPADDLE ANTRIM: $9,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $7,750 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES FOR ALASKA: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetORCA BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRELEAF MICHIGAN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORBUSH CORNER NORDIC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWATER WORKS THEATRE COMPANY INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FLATHEAD AVALANCHE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Leelanau School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVASA SKI CLUB: $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEVEN PONDS NATURE CENTER INC: $725 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

PatagoniaorgThe Burning FoundationGrand Traverse Region…Seattle FoundationThe Herrington-Fitch …Wilburforce FoundationOleson FoundationRotary Charities of T…Harry a and Margaret …The Oregon Community …The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial Trust
PatagoniaorgCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The Burning Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation Inc C/O Leslie Lee · Wilburforce Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Umpqua Watersheds: 41% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association: 9% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: 2% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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.
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How do I get to Rosso Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rosso Family 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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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