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The Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald Foundation at a glance

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The Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald 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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$519k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.9MArts & Culture$3.4MHealth$1.5MInternational$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.3MEnvironment$674kRecreation & Sports$640kReligion$234kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $330k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+2 grants · $769k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$79k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$518,735
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION$250,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS INC$191,667
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$167,667
CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY INC$166,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$130,000
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH$100,000
THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC$100,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$100,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$100,000
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC$100,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$100,000
BRUCE AND MARSHA MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION$100,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$80,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $10k → 9%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $10k → 11%SAFE HORIZON INC: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 51 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
69

Total granted

$10M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +119%
  • NY
    New York University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +30%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $860k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HOSPITALSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $370k · revenue +43%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FOUNDATIONINC
    one grant, 2020 · $255k · revenue +2%
  • UH
    UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +34%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
3
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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8
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
9
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is The Manursing Way & Island Beautification Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 137 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/115
Grantees still filing
79/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,463,047 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY …The Society of the Four Arts Inc: $306,667 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Ar…NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER: $200,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMO…SAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER …American Museum of Natural History: $160,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $130,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $322,500 · Arts & Culture+14 moreNew York University: $1,152,000 · EducationNew York UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $700,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBI…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $415,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth C…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $175,000 · EducationThe New York Public Lib…+14 more: $421,550 · Education+14 moreVASSAR COLLEGE: $626,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGENATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FOUNDATIONINC: $255,000 · OtherNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMOR…ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FDN: $120,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $535,334 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY IN…THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · Other+54 more: $1,649,330 · Other+54 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $860,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWI…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD …BRUCE AND MARSHA MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBRUCE AND M…+6 more: $62,000 · PhilanthropyCenter for a New American Security Inc: $583,000 · InternationalCenter for …COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $350,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON …BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT …THE ROBERT M GATES GLOBAL POLICY CENTER: $100,000 · InternationalTHE ROBERT …FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $50,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $49,715 · International+5 more: $45,500 · InternationalNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $370,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $220,000 · HealthTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION: $125,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $65,000 · Health+9 more: $102,000 · HealthENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $400,000 · EnvironmentFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $253,000 · Environment+3 more: $21,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$3,132,214Education$2,863,550Other$3,325,664Philanthropy$1,422,000International$1,328,215Health$882,000Environment$674,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,463,047 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $1,152,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $860,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $700,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $626,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc: $583,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $535,334 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $415,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $370,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $350,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $306,667 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $253,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $220,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC: $200,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $130,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION: $125,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRUCE AND MARSHA MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $89,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREAD TO LEAD INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $57,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $49,715 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $40,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC: $29,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…The Ford FoundationDalia and Larry Leeds…National Philanthropi…May and Samuel Rudin …Rockefeller Brothers …The Warburg Pincus Fo…The Hyde and Watson F…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY24.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ford Foundation · Dalia and Larry Leeds Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 137 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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