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The Isabel 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.

$84k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$181kReligion$81kArts & Culture$62kAnimals$18kCrime & Legal$5kHousing & Shelter$5kPhilanthropy$5kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$39,600
PROJECT LYME$20,000
THE NEW 42ND STREET$10,000
KEEP BEL-AIR BEAUTIFUL$5,000
ARS NOVA$5,000
ANIMAL HAVEN INC$2,500
CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION$1,000
HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$284k · 7 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
25

Total granted

$284k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+20%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PL
    PROJECT LYME
    3× · 2022–2024 · $160k · revenue -31%
  • CS
    CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $78k
  • TN
    THE NEW 42ND STREET INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CV
    CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +84%
  • MR
    MIRANDAS RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
4
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
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
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
9
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
10
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

11
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr12%9%35–55yr12%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%56%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr12%6%35–55yr12%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
13,780/102,757

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.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROJECT LYME — $160,000 · HealthPROJECT LYMEEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $10,051 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTS+2 more — $2,000 · HealthCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE — $78,200 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUEARS NOVA — $15,000 · OtherARS NOVACREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $13,000 · OtherCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $5,175 · Other+16 more — $20,929 · Other+16 moreTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $17,556 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42…THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEG…INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIO…American Museum of Natural History — $2,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican M…+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureMIRANDAS RESCUE INC — $10,000 · AnimalsMuch Love Animal Rescue — $5,000 · Animals+1 more — $500 · AnimalsKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL — $5,000 · Community ImprovementHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropyLymeLight Foundation — $2,500 · Human Services
Health$172,051Other$132,304Arts & Culture$32,556Animals$15,500Community Improvement$5,000Philanthropy$4,000Human Services$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROJECT LYME — $160,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $17,556 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $10,051 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRANDAS RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMuch Love Animal Rescue — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLymeLight Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY — $533 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIDEO CONSORTIUM INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Isabel Rose Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Isabel Rose Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Isabel Rose Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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