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The Rose Flaum 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.

$269k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$211k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$1.4MHealth$209kPhilanthropy$34kReligion$28kInternational$15kCivil Rights$10kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $211k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OSU FOUNDATION$210,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY$15,000
HOLLINS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE$10,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING$10,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP$5,000
NATIONAL STUTTERING ASSOCIATION$3,500
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$2,500
HADASSAH THE WOMENS ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC$2,250
THE STUTTERING FOUNDATION$2,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY (EASTERN DIVISION)$1,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM$1,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$1,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$720
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $21k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $20k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $15k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $13k → 17%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $13k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $10k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $10k → 17%HELPUSADOPTORG: $100 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 45 repeat orgs$431k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
23

Total granted

$1.3M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-10%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $908k · revenue +6%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
    7× · 2019–2025 · $102k · revenue +11%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $206k
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TI
    TEMPLE ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
3
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
4
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
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
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Jewish War Veterans of the United States

The Organization was granted a charter as a not for profit corporation for patriotic and educational purposes with special concern for the welfare of veterans. The Organization's principal activities consist of protecting the benefits and…

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10
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
11
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
12
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stuttering Foundation of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Military Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsDevelopmental Disabilities …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr14%13%20–35yr16%34%35–55yr20%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr14%8%20–35yr16%80%35–55yr20%11%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,249

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

52 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. 52 of the 71 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $908,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONOklahoma State University Foundation — $210,500 · EducationOklahoma State University Foundation+3 more — $9,350 · EducationTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $205,500 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIV…CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE — $19,460 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE+43 more — $71,850 · Other+43 moreTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING — $101,812 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,200 · Human Services+3 more — $700 · Human ServicesAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $90,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $5,300 · International+4 more — $2,950 · InternationalHOLLINS COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $71,000 · Social ScienceUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $32,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $8,000 · HealthNational Stuttering Association — $7,500 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION — $3,820 · Health+2 more — $500 · Health
Education$1,127,850Other$296,810Human Services$106,712International$98,250Social Science$71,000Philanthropy$36,000Health$19,820

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 budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $908,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation — $210,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING — $101,812 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLINS COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $71,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Stuttering Association — $7,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetStuttering Foundation of America — $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $5,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University — $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $3,820 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIFFORD E GALBRAITH POST 7127 — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHelen Keller Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTri-State Public Communications Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIME CONNECT INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Rose Flaum 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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