How much does The Rose Marrow Fund give?

The Rose Marrow Fund reported 56 grants totaling $110,904 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Rose Marrow Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Religion (32%), Youth Development (6%).

Who are The Rose Marrow Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Newberry Library ($179k), Cambridge in America ($108k), Har Sinai Hebrew Congregation ($67k).

Does The Rose Marrow Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Rose Marrow Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Rose Marrow Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Where is The Rose Marrow Fund based?

The Rose Marrow Fund is based in NJ.

The Rose Marrow Fund

The Rose Marrow Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Rose Marrow Fund

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.

$111k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$18k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$495kReligion$320kYouth Development$57kArts & Culture$50kCivil Rights$32kScience & Tech$18kFood & Nutrition$6kSocial Science$5kOther$0

02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k50 grants · $27k
$10k–50k6 grants · $83k

$250

Median grant

States reached

$179k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Americans for Oxford	$18,475
Har Sinai Hebrew Congregation	$15,236
HEAF	$14,000
Cambridge in America	$12,575
The Paideia Institute	$12,000
Anti-Defamation League	$11,210
Friends of the Priceton Univ Librar	$3,000
International Center of Medieval Ar	$2,500
Martha's Vineyard Film Society	$2,500
Institute for Advanced Study	$2,000
Digital Scriptorium	$2,000
Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center	$1,555
Chabad of Mercer County	$1,500
Magen David Adom	$1,000
The Newberry Library	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$919k · 62 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$919k

$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+25%

Still filing today

50%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +47%
AF
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
5× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +29%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD INC
4× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +496%

Funded once

YU
YALE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2017 · $26k
CF
Ctr for Jewish Civilization Georget
one grant, 2018 · $20k
MV
Martha's Vineyard Fisherman Preserv
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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University of New Haven

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…

Education

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

—

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education

Lehigh University

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Up-Island Council On Aging. 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

50 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. 50 of the 103 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/50

Grantees still filing

32/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$456,850Education$366,915International$111,210Civil Rights$31,839Arts & Culture$13,220Science & Tech$9,000Social Science$4,500

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.

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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Griffin-Cole Fund · Wm Bryce Thompson Foundation · Educational Ventures Inc · Honey Perkins Family Foundation Inc · The Burke Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get 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

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home