· Private foundation
Rosswood 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $278k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $985k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRC NA INC | $175,000 |
| MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS | $120,000 |
| AUGUSTINE INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY | $90,000 |
| MOUNT ROYAL ACADEMY | $85,000 |
| CATHOLIC WORLD MISSION | $80,000 |
| DIVINE MERCY UNIVERSITY | $80,000 |
| ST MICHAEL HIGH SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION | $70,000 |
| CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CARING CENTER FOR WOMEN | $40,000 |
| BENEDICTINE COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| CNEWA | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 47% of Rosswood Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TIThe Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $625k · revenue +144%
- MEMATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $550k · revenue +386%
Augustine Institute Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $516k · revenue +321%
Funded once
- RCREGNUM CHRISTI CONSECRATED WOMENone grant, 2021 · $150k
- MEMATER ECCLESIAE INCone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LOLEGION OF CHRISTone grant, 2019 · $90k
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.
Inspired by Saint Pope John Paul II, we take as our motto Cultura Vitae, the culture of life, as our students triumph over the materialism and despair that pervades our culture in order to have life and have it abundantly. We do this with…
An education with a rigorous classical curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic faith.
Under the patronage of our Blessed Mother, Chesterton Academy of the Immaculata seeks to partner with parents in forming young men and women to be joyful leaders and saints. We cultivate Christian virtues and guide students in the pursuit…
To partner with parents to raise a generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical, liberal arts tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith. Students will abound in the skills and character requisite for success in…
The mission of Chesterton Academy is to help parents raise up a new generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith.
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
Under the patronage of G.K. Chesterton and in partnership with families and the Church, the mission of Chesterton Academy of St. Louis is to foster a Culture of Life by forming a new generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the…
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
Aquinas Classical Academy is an independent high school, obedient to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.
Guided by Christian faith, St. Therese Academy guides students with Montessori, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and classical principles to live out the gospel message, achieve academic excellence, and joyfulluy lead by faith, virtue and…
To inspire and influence the culture in Fort Worth by joyfully engaging our students with the classics, which are the foundation of Western civilization and point to the most important historical even of humanity, the Incarnation of our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Hgr Ed and the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 44 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 The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc ↗
- Who funds MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MAGDALEN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mount Royal Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST MICHAEL ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds The Human Life Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds CHURCH MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NASAREANORG INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ROYAL ACADEMY NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds Ville de Marie Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds VITAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC ↗
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: The Moran Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rosswood 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.