· Private foundation
Roy and Ellen Rosenthal Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bread for the City | $40,000 |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation | $10,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Washington | $10,000 |
| Joslin Diabetes Center | $10,000 |
| University of Pennsylvania | $10,000 |
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | $10,000 |
| The John F Kennedy Center | $8,000 |
| Norwood School | $5,000 |
| Shriners Children Hospital | $1,000 |
| Central Synagogue | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 82% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 92% of Roy and Ellen Rosenthal Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $291k · revenue +70%
- NSNORWOOD SCHOOL INC6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +34%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- JJSSAone grant, 2021 · $5k
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +106%- ARAmerican Red Crossone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.
Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CLL Global Research Foundation ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roy and Ellen Rosenthal Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roy and Ellen Rosenthal Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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