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The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $703k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $710k
$13,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Formerly Incarcerated Convicted People & Families Movement$150,000
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition$100,000
New Israel Fund$100,000
Forward Justice$75,000
VOTE Voice of the Experienced$75,000
Rural Roots Louisiana$60,000
BOLD Education Fund$50,000
The Partnership Project$50,000
The Institute for Enhanced Equity$50,000
Louisiana Bucket Brigade$40,000
POWER An Interfaith Movement$30,000
Steps Coalition$30,000
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services$30,000
The Descendants Project$30,000
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services$30,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%It Takes Philly: $5k → 7%Children First PA: $10k → 22%Children First PA: $10k → 22%Public Citizens for Children and Youth: $8k → 22%Public Citizens for Children and Youth: $8k → 22%Safe & Sound Somerset: $9k → 5%Children First: $8k → 22%Public Citizens for Children and Youth: $8k → 22%Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey: $3k → 5%Children First PA: $8k → 22%Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey: $3k → 5%Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey: $3k → 5%Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey: $3k → 5%Crossroads4Hope: $3k → 5%Public Citizens for Children and Youth: $5k → 22%Women's Medical Fund: $15k → 22%Women's Medical Fund: $15k → 22%Center for Urban Families Inc: $3k → 19%Center for Urban Families Inc: $3k → 19%Center for Urban Families Inc: $3k → 19%Center for Urban Families Inc: $3k → 19%Abortion Liberation Fund of PA: $15k → 22%Trolley Car Helping Hands: $20k → 22%Trolley Car Helping Hands: $20k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $15k → 22%Trolley Car Helping Hands: $15k → 22%Center for Urban Families Inc: $3k → 19%Resources for Human Development Inc: $10k → 22%Face to Face: $10k → 22%Face to Face: $10k → 22%Face to Face: $10k → 22%Face to Face: $10k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $10k → 22%Face to Face: $10k → 22%Trolley Car Helping Hands: $10k → 22%Trolley Car Helping Hands: $10k → 22%Face to Face Inc: $8k → 22%Trolley Car Helping Hands: $10k → 22%Face to Face: $8k → 22%Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network Inc: $5k → 22%Face to Face Inc: $5k → 22%Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network Inc: $5k → 22%Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network Inc: $5k → 22%Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network Inc: $5k → 22%Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network Inc: $5k → 22%Fulphil: $5k → 22%Fulphil: $5k → 22%Fulphil: $5k → 22%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

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IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 115 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
33

Total granted

$7.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
0%

Still filing today

84%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $435k · revenue +53%
  • FJ
    FORWARD JUSTICE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +32%
  • LB
    LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $266k · revenue +756%

Funded once

  • HU
    HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • TE
    Taproot Earth
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -71%
  • PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +102%
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
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
2
The Public Interest Law Center

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Build Philly Now

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.

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6
Community Justice Project

To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
7
Pennsylvania United

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

Civil Rights
8
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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…

Philanthropy
11
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
12
Public Trust

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

136 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. 136 of the 157 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/136
Grantees still filing
94/136
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION: $500,000 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGIONVOTE Voice of the Experienced: $300,000 · OtherVOTE Voice of the ExperiencedPROJECT SOUTH INC: $250,000 · OtherPOWER An Interfaith Movement: $198,000 · OtherFORMERLY INCARCERATED CONVICTED PEOPLE AND FAMILIES MOVEMENT INC: $175,000 · OtherNEW ISRAEL FUND: $275,000 · OtherNEW ISRAEL FUND+88 more: $3,196,923 · Other+88 moreSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $435,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTA…LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $266,000 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGAD…TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY: $193,000 · EnvironmentTEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUS…BALTIMORE GREEN SPACE: $126,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE GREEN SPACERURAL ROOTS LOUISIANA: $120,000 · EnvironmentRURAL ROOTS LOUISIANATaproot Earth: $100,000 · EnvironmentBLUE WATER BALTIMORE: $84,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $82,500 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUND: $80,000 · Environment+16 more: $455,233 · Environment+16 moreFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION: $200,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY: $80,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $67,000 · Civil RightsAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $62,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $60,000 · Civil RightsPUSHBLACK: $50,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $50,000 · Civil RightsCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC: $45,000 · Civil RightsCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $25,000 · Civil RightsSTEPS COALITION: $183,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $145,000 · EducationGOUCHER COLLEGE: $109,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationCivic Nation: $25,000 · Education+3 more: $44,500 · EducationEARTH QUAKER ACTION TEAM: $163,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $97,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DESCENDANTS PROJECT: $93,000 · Community ImprovementGERMANTOWN UNITED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $86,000 · Community ImprovementBOLD EDUCATION FUND INC: $50,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $17,500 · Community ImprovementTIDES FOUNDATION: $350,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS INC: $16,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFORWARD JUSTICE: $300,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New York: $40,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $25,000 · Crime & LegalJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS: $17,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $15,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $26,250 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,894,923Environment$1,941,733Civil Rights$664,000Education$546,500Community Improvement$506,500Philanthropy$426,000Crime & Legal$423,750

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 budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $435,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD JUSTICE: $300,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $275,000 over 7y, 0.2% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $101,000 over 8y, 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 budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUSHBLACK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds STEPS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds EARTH QUAKER ACTION TEAM ↗
  • Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE GREEN SPACE ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
  • Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds RURAL ROOTS LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Taproot Earth ↗
  • Who funds UNITED HOUMA NATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DESCENDANTS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GERMANTOWN UNITED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TROLLEY CAR HELPING HANDS ↗
  • Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BIKEMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds FACE TO FACE 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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…Clayton Baker TrustBaltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…Tides FoundationThe Abell Foundation …Zanvyl and Isabelle K…Rockefeller Family Fu…United Way of Greater…New Venture Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Elizabeth B and Arthur E Roswell Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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