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The 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$2.4MEducation$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$863kHealth$570kRecreation & Sports$301kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+2 grants · $850k
$150,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC$500,000
YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC$350,000
ATLANTA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$100,000
CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $270k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $75k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $10k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $8k → 17%AVE MARIA HOME: $500 → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $350k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $275k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $275k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $225k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $200k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $175k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $125k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Rose Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Rose Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 12 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$5.2M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YV
    YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +7%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +84%
  • YOUTH VILLAGES INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $500k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +110%
  • PW
    PROMOTING WELLNESS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -44%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
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
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
3
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
4
Young Men's Christian Association of East Tennessee Inc

To put christian principles into practice through programs and activities that develop the spirit, mind and body of youth, adults and families in knoxville, tn and surrounding communities. the ymca encourages growth for youth development,…

Human Services
5
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
6
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
7
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Georgia Mountains Young Men's Christian Association Inc

To put christian principles into practice through programs, services and relationships that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Human Services
9
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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10
The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness F/K/a Tn Health & Wellness Fnd

The mission of the governor's foundation for health and wellness is to encourage and enable more tennesseans to lead healthier lives.

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11
Ut Medical Group Inc

To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

Health
12
University of Mississippi Medical Center Research Development Foundation

Support the research activities of the university of mississippi medical center

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Villages Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Promoting Wellness Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 21 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $2,325,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INCYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INCYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $362,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $1,129,899 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FO…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $365,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $1,203,669 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION …DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITA…+1 more: $22,500 · PhilanthropyCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $450,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $100,000 · HealthATLANTA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsGAYLE S ROSE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $16,000 · OtherBRIDGEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherRED BANKS BAPTIST CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROMOTING WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$3,188,500Education$1,504,899Philanthropy$1,326,169Health$550,000Recreation & Sports$300,500Other$66,000Youth Development$40,000Arts & Culture$20,000

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 budgetYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $2,325,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $1,203,669 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $1,129,899 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $450,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $365,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $362,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetATLANTA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $40,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAVE MARIA FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPROMOTING WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS STATE SWIMMING INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVE MARIA HOME INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Rose Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rose Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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 Rose Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The 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 21 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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