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The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
61
Grants FY2024
58
Organizations funded FY2023
12%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$13,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
52 to 98
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$15M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCivil RightsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving55$1.4M7%
FY202358$1.9M12%
FY202252$1.1M12%
FY202191$1.0M8%
FY202098$1.1M15%
FY201995$755k12%
FY201895$729k13%
FY201790$690kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.9MCivil Rights$1.4MReligion$809kCommunity Improvement$754kPublic Benefit$635kEducation$532kFood & Nutrition$519kCrime & Legal$473kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion$500,0001n/a
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$435,00030%
Forward Justice$300,00042%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade$266,00065%
Project South Inc$250,00052%
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition$200,00024%
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy$193,00087%
Steps Coalition$183,000812%
Formerly Incarcerated Convicted People and Families Movement Inc$175,0001n/a
Earth Quaker Action Team$163,00086%
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All grantees of The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion$500,0001n/a
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$435,00030%
Forward Justice$300,00042%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade$266,00065%
Project South Inc$250,00052%
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition$200,00024%
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy$193,00087%
Steps Coalition$183,000812%
Formerly Incarcerated Convicted People and Families Movement Inc$175,0001n/a
Earth Quaker Action Team$163,00086%
Rutgers Hillel Corporation$156,00081%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$145,00080%
The Sentencing Project$140,00081%
Baltimore Green Space$126,000820%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$123,00050%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$120,00080%
Rural Roots Louisiana$120,000220%
Goucher College$109,00070%
Taproot Earth$100,00010%
United Houma Nation Inc$100,00053%
Fusion Partnership Inc$97,00080%
The Descendants Project$93,00032%
Parks and People Inc$90,00080%
Philabundance$90,00080%
Information Technology Disaster Resource Center Inc$89,00081%
Germantown United Community Development Corporation$86,00087%
Trolley Car Helping Hands$85,000637%
Blue Water Baltimore$84,00080%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$82,50050%
Clean Water Fund$80,00080%
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia Inc$80,00080%
Institute for Enhanced Equity$80,00023%
Baltimore Public Media Corporation$77,00080%
Bikemore Inc$75,50085%
Face to Face Inc$70,00080%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$68,00080%
People for the American Way Foundation$67,00080%
Children First PA$62,50081%
Americans United for Separation of Church and State$62,00080%
The Food Bank Network of Somerset County Inc$60,00081%
Protect Democracy Project$60,00010%
Jubilee Justice Inc$60,00021%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$56,00080%
NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland Fund Inc$55,00054%
The Partnership Project Inc$50,00010%
Pushblack$50,00011%
A New Way of Life Reentry Project$50,00010%
Alliance for Youth Organizing$50,00010%
Bold Education Fund Inc$50,00012%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$50,00050%
Abortion Liberation Fund of Pa$45,00039%
Civic Influencers Inc$45,00031%
Plantation Park Heights Urban Farming$44,00054%
Zufall Health Center Inc$40,00080%
Share Food Program$40,00070%
University of Baltimore Foundation Inc$40,00080%
Make the Road New York$40,00010%
Casa Inc$40,00010%
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression$40,00080%
Awbury Arboretum Association$40,00081%
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future$40,00011%
Democracy Now Productions Inc$37,50050%
Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc$37,50041%
Chesapeake Climate Action Network Inc$37,50051%
Home of Somerset County Inc Formerly Interfaith Hospitality Network Of$36,00080%
Baltimore Tree Trust Inc$35,00071%
Resources for Human Development Inc$35,00030%
Nutritional Research Foundation Inc$34,500516%
Baltimore Orchard Project Inc$33,0005n/a
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$32,00070%
The American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel Inc$30,00031%
Philly Thrive$30,0001n/a
Movement Alliance Project$30,00010%
The Johns Hopkins Hospital$28,00020%
Civic Nation$25,00010%
Fairmount Park Conservancy$25,00050%
Inn Dwelling Inc$25,00051%
Family Promise of Philadelphia$25,00051%
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation$25,00010%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc$25,00050%
Bike Maryland Inc$25,00059%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$25,00050%
Infact DBA Corporate Accountability$25,00050%
Southern Coalition for Social Justice$25,00050%
Ceasefire Pennsylvania Education Fund$25,00051%
Environmental Grantmakers Association$22,73350%
Pennsylvania Voice$20,00010%
Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training$20,00023%
The Friends of the Wissahickon Inc$20,00050%
When We All Vote$20,00010%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$20,00010%
Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc$20,00041%
Buckeye Environmental Network$20,00017%
Allied Media Projects Inc$20,00010%
Whyy Inc$17,50050%
Mighty Writers$17,50050%
Philadelphia Student Union$17,50052%
Jail Project of Texas$17,50045%
Genesis at the Crossroads Inc$16,00040%
V-Linc Inc$15,50025%
The Loading Dock Inc$15,00050%
Fulphil$15,000311%
The Samaritan Community Inc$15,00032%
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$15,00041%
Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc$15,00030%
Maryland Pesticide Education Network Inc$15,00051%
Keystone Research Center Inc$14,00011%
OUT For JUSTICE INC$13,75034%
Weavers Way Community Programs$12,50051%
Crossroads4hope$12,50050%
Center for Urban Families Inc$12,50050%
Irvine Natural Science Center Inc$12,50050%
National Save The Family Farm Coalition$12,50051%
Living Beyond Breast Cancer$12,50050%
Commonwealth Youthchoirs Inc$12,50050%
Civic Works Inc$12,00050%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$10,00020%
The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc$10,00020%
Zoological Society of Philadelphia$10,00020%
The Franklin Institute$10,00020%
Please Touch Museum$10,00020%
Safe & Sound Somerset Inc$8,5001n/a
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$7,50030%
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc$5,00010%
The Dance Exchange Inc$5,00021%
1000 Friends of Maryland$5,00012%
Foundation of the Oscar and Ella Wilf Ca$5,00020%
Urban Affairs Coalition$5,00010%
It Takes Philly$5,00010%
Jews United for Justice Inc$3,75010%
New Kensington Community Development Corp$2,50010%
Mt Airy Community Services Corp$2,50010%
Sunday Suppers$2,50011%
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($788k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 129 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $435,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetForward Justice: $300,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLouisiana Bucket Brigade: $266,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetProject South Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFlorida Rights Restoration Coalition: $200,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTexas Environmental Justice Advocacy: $193,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetSteps Coalition: $183,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetEarth Quaker Action Team: $163,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetRutgers Hillel Corporation: $156,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $145,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sentencing Project: $140,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBaltimore Green Space: $126,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $123,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRural Roots Louisiana: $120,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetGoucher College: $109,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTaproot Earth: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Houma Nation Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFusion Partnership Inc: $97,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Descendants Project: $93,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetParks and People Inc: $90,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPhilabundance: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInformation Technology Disaster Resource Center Inc: $89,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGermantown United Community Development Corporation: $86,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetTrolley Car Helping Hands: $85,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetBlue Water Baltimore: $84,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $82,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetClean Water Fund: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Philadelphia Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetInstitute for Enhanced Equity: $80,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBaltimore Public Media Corporation: $77,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBikemore Inc: $75,500 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetFace to Face Inc: $70,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $68,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPeople for the American Way Foundation: $67,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetChildren First PA: $62,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAmericans United for Separation of Church and State: $62,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Bank Network of Somerset County Inc: $60,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetProtect Democracy Project: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJubilee Justice Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $56,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNARAL Pro-Choice Maryland Fund Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPushblack: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetA New Way of Life Reentry Project: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAlliance for Youth Organizing: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBold Education Fund Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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 129.

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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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA41.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · New Venture Fund

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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About The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc

How much does The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc give?
The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc reported 61 grants totaling $1,504,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 98 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Civil Rights (15%), Religion (9%).
Who are The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ($500k), Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc ($435k), Forward Justice ($300k).
Does The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc based?
The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 157 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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