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Rotberg Comens Bray 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.

$39k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,038
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,239
Organizations funded a year
11 to 20
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$169k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsHealthCivil 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
FY2025still arriving16$29k69%
FY202412$42k75%
FY202320$21k60%
FY202219$27k63%
FY202115$28k47%
FY202011$17kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$35kArts & Culture$23kPhilanthropy$13kHealth$12kCivil Rights$10kHuman Services$9kEmployment$6kReligion$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPianos for Peace Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCedar Crest College: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCobalt Foundation: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew Futures: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEmployment Resources Inc: $5,586 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Theatre Lab Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOur Children's Trust: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrother Jeff's Cultural Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaui Humane Society: $1,287 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Education Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTy Louis Campbell Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSustainable Markets Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Loveland Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJavesca Feeds Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Elizabeth's School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Elizabeth's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Fr ancis: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Rising for Communities: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhysicians for Social Responsibility Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMalama Kauai: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKauai Humane Society Inc: $250 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 27.

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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.

Rotberg Comens Booth FoundationCO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rotberg Comens Booth Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic 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.

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How do I get to Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rotberg Comens Bray 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 Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation

How much does Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation give?
Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $39,309 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (17%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pianos for Peace Inc ($13k), Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($9k), Cedar Crest College ($8k).
Does Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rotberg Comens Bray 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 Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rotberg Comens Booth Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
Where is Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation based?
Rotberg Comens Bray 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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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