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Rossow 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.

$32k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$16,115
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$18k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Rossow Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$30k29%
FY20238$24k13%
FY202211$16k18%
FY202111$20k36%
FY202016$14k56%
FY201918$10k67%
FY201812$8k75%
FY201711$10kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$107kHuman Services$36kEducation$30kHealth$16kPhilanthropy$5kInternational$3kCivil Rights$3kCrime & Legal$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
CO
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rossow Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $33,651 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Joseph School Inc: $23,842 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGlobal Down Syndrome Foundation: $8,329 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMarketing Research Education Foundation Inc: $2,650 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStanley British Primary School: $2,178 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQsac Inc: $1,803 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boulder Jewish Community Center: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMoishe House: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha Epsilon Pi Foundation: $1,015 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fortune Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClothes to Kids of Denver Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGolf Fights Cancer Inc: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGift of Life Marrow Registry Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMurray Bowen Archives Project: $150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHeavy Hands Heavy Hearts Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLive Like Bella Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Down Syndrome Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetComic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief US: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc: $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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Find your warmest path to Rossow 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.

About Rossow Family Foundation

How much does Rossow Family Foundation give?
Rossow Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $31,969 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Rossow Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Human Services (17%), Education (14%).
Who are Rossow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc ($34k), The Joseph School Inc ($24k), Global Down Syndrome Foundation ($8k).
Does Rossow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rossow 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 Rossow Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation.
Where is Rossow Family Foundation based?
Rossow Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 57 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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