· Private foundation
The Joseph and Rose Rontal Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of The Joseph and Rose Rontal Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year The Joseph and Rose Rontal Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $152k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIV OF MICHIGAN MEDICINE | $135,000 |
| STAMPS SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN | $10,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $1,000 |
| CHIARTS FOUNDATION | $300 |
| TORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE | $125 |
| THREE LAKES ASSOCIATION | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call). Read against FY2025, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2026, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $401k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +202%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS4× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +34%- ALAMERICAN LARYNGOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE LAND CONSEone grant, 2021 · $38k
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +93%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERYone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LARYNGOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds Marwen Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO HELP INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ChiArts Foundation ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Jewish Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joseph and Rose Rontal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joseph and Rose Rontal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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