· Private foundation
The Deborah Rose 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.
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
- $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $706k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING AFRICA FOUNDATION | $2,914,401 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER | $566,360 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $510,000 |
| PRESIDENT FELLOWS HARVARD COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| TEMPLE ISAIAH | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $126,000 |
| SAKSHI FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| THE ONLINE JOURNALISM PROJECT | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WEB DU BOIS MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY | $30,000 |
| MORYS PRESERVATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE CONCORD REVIEW | $25,000 |
| KIGALI READING CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| DWIGHT HALL AT YALE | $25,000 |
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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HAHELPING AFRICA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +766% · 100% of their budget
VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC2× · 2018–2022 · $373k · revenue +91%- TNTHE NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +141% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- HAHelping Africa Foundationone grant, 2020 · $2.5M
- CACorporate Accountability Internatlone grant, 2018 · $600k
- VVVital Voices Global Partnershipone grant, 2020 · $575k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 42 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 HELPING AFRICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY-WARREN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORY'S PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds Online Journalism Project Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Friends of Yamoransa Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WEB Du Bois Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Concord Review Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT HALL AT YALE ↗
- Who funds BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds THE GARRISON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE OUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Deborah Rose Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Deborah Rose Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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