· Private foundation
The John B Rosenthal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $805k
- $250k+1 grant · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA | $800,000 |
| HAVEN OF HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY INC | $155,000 |
| HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA | $150,000 |
| JUVENILE LAW CENTER | $150,000 |
| SHARING EXCESS INC | $150,000 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC | $100,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $50,000 |
| PLAY ON PHILLY | $50,000 |
| TREE HOUSE BOOKS | $45,000 |
| FRESH ARTISTS | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% 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.
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.
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 +82% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- TFTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA2× · 2024–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +99%
- HPHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA4× · 2021–2025 · $380k · revenue +167%
- HOHAVEN OF HOPE & OPPORTUNITY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $306k · revenue +153% · 84% of their budget
Funded once
- MTMAKE THE WORLD BETTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -52% · 42% of their budget
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $196k · revenue +33%
- TPTHE PENNROSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $49k · revenue 0% · 32% of their budget
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.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.
See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…
The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.
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Summary
Whyy is the philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and all of delaware.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopephl and the most unlike its peers is Make the World Better Foundation Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
24 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.
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.
- Who funds THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH FOR CHANGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAKE THE WORLD BETTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE & OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING EXCESS ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE BOOKS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds PLAY ON PHILLY ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FRESH ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds THE PENNROSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAUREL HILL AND WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERIES ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED INSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds HOPEPHL ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
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 · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Claneil Foundation Inc · Union Benevolent Association · Pincus Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Vert Charitable Trust UA 12222011
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 John B Rosenthal 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.
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.