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The Isabel Rose Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its 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
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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ImprovementBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetLymeLight Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS 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
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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Isabel Rose Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Isabel Rose Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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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