· Private foundation
The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $703k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $710k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Formerly Incarcerated Convicted People & Families Movement | $150,000 |
| New Israel Fund | $100,000 |
| Florida Rights Restoration Coalition | $100,000 |
| Forward Justice | $75,000 |
| VOTE Voice of the Experienced | $75,000 |
| Rural Roots Louisiana | $60,000 |
| BOLD Education Fund | $50,000 |
| The Institute for Enhanced Equity | $50,000 |
| The Partnership Project | $50,000 |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | $40,000 |
| Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services | $30,000 |
| Jubilee Justice | $30,000 |
| Earth Quaker Action Team | $30,000 |
| POWER An Interfaith Movement | $30,000 |
| Steps Coalition | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC3× · 2022–2024 · $435k · revenue +53%
- FJFORWARD JUSTICE4× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +32%
- LBLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE6× · 2019–2024 · $266k · revenue +756%
Funded once
- HUHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGIONone grant, 2023 · $500k
- TETaproot Earthone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -71%
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +102%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.
To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.
PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fulphil. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
136 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 136 of the 157 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Safe & Sound Somerset Inc — 54% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Zufall Health Center Inc — 32% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- CROSSROADS4HOPE — 1% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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