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The Rosenthal Family 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.

$900k
Granted FY2024still arriving
114
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.3MCivil Rights$564kScience & Tech$533kPublic Benefit$482kEnvironment$382kEducation$253kHealth$213kAnimals$154kOther$0
02FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k90 grants · $187k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $461k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $252k
$2,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$75,000
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS$60,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$60,000
PEN AMERICA$57,000
MAGNUM FOUNDATION$40,000
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING$35,000
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION$35,000
WILDLIFE GUARDIANS$35,000
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES$30,000
EARTHWAYS FOUNDATION$30,000
CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC$26,200
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC$25,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $500 → 20%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $2k → 21%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $500 → 20%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $2k → 21%HIDDEN HARVEST: $2k → 11%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $1k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $1k → 21%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $1k → 17%STUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $3k → 16%COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE: $45k → 14%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $500 → 17%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $12k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $3k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $3k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $350 → 14%FIRST STAR: $1k → 14%IAVA: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 123 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

123 repeat relationships: 87 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

123
144

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+14%

Still filing today

78%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $281k · revenue +79%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $135k · revenue +21%
  • WG
    WILDLIFE GUARDIANS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • UF
    Utah Film Center
    one grant, 2020 · $251k
  • UO
    Union of Concerned Scientists
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • MH
    MAGIC HOUR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
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.

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Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
4
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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5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
7
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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8
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
9
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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12
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Dillon Henry Foundation. 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

163 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. 163 of the 298 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
161/163
Grantees still filing
101/163
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Utah Film Center: $250,800 · OtherUtah Film CenterNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN & FAMILY: $155,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN & FAMILYUnion of Concerned Scientists: $150,000 · OtherMAGIC HOUR FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherAmerican Film Institute: $110,000 · OtherAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS: $97,000 · OtherLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $112,500 · OtherWILDLIFE GUARDIANS: $135,000 · OtherWASHINGTON MONTHLY INSTITUTE: $95,000 · Other+109 more: $1,557,319 · Other+109 moreUTAH FILM CENTER: $280,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Arts & CultureMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATI…Americans for the Arts Inc: $125,000 · Arts & CultureAmericans for the Arts I…CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $103,700 · Arts & CultureCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INCTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $101,050 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEA…PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $67,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INCTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTIT…CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $49,600 · Arts & Culture+23 more: $209,877 · Arts & Culture+23 moreTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $377,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF…EARTHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · InternationalEARTHWAYS FO…PENTA MEDICAL RECYCLING CORP: $50,000 · InternationalPENTA MEDICA…+3 more: $34,811 · International+3 moreLOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: $135,269 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $32,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · Education+10 more: $35,080 · EducationHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $85,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentDREAMORG: $22,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INC: $8,000 · Environment+8 more: $37,000 · EnvironmentPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $13,500 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $11,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $22,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF THE FREE CLINIC INC: $75,000 · HealthCenter for Environmental Health: $35,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $8,700 · Health+3 more: $13,000 · Health
Other$2,812,619Arts & Culture$1,211,727International$582,311Education$297,849Environment$224,500Civil Rights$186,500Health$181,700

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $377,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $280,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: $135,269 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetWILDLIFE GUARDIANS: $135,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetAmericans for the Arts Inc: $125,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEARTHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $112,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $103,700 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $101,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS: $97,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON MONTHLY INSTITUTE: $95,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FREE CLINIC INC: $75,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $67,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPENTA MEDICAL RECYCLING CORP: $50,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSundance Institute: $49,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetCOURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE C3: $45,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMORG: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DILLON HENRY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $17,830 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $17,390 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $15,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $11,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $11,811 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $11,000 over 4y, 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.

Liberty Hill Foundati…California Community …Jewish Community Foun…The Annenberg Foundat…The San Francisco Fou…John D and Catherine …Silicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Ford FoundationClif Family FoundationWeingart Foundation
Liberty Hill FoundationCA32.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Hill Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Weingart 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 Rosenthal Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rosenthal Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Chrysalis Center Inc: 93% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Silk Road Project Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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How do I get to The Rosenthal Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rosenthal Family 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 298 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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