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The Rosenthal 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.

$245k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
7
Organizations funded FY2020
43%
First-time grantees FY2020
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100% of The Rosenthal Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Rosenthal Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $245k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
4
’18
5
’19
7
’20
0
’21
1
’22
1
’23
2
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$233k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 43% of the organizations The Rosenthal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20207$245k43%
FY20196$245k83%
FY20185$216k80%
FY20174$210kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$10MArts & Culture$461kAnimals$300kHealth$130kScience & Tech$100kReligion$70kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of The Rosenthal Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Fort Worth Zoological Association$300,00030%
Texas Ballet Theater Inc$125,00031%
Fort Worth Opera Association Inc$100,00023%
Van Cliburn Foundation Inc$75,0002n/a
Performing Arts Fort Worth Inc$67,50020%
Imagination Fort Worth$50,00028%
All Saints Health Foundation$50,00011%
Myelin Repair Foundation Inc$40,000115%
Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth$30,00013%
Kids Who Care Inc$25,00014%
Cancer Care Services$25,00011%
Beth-El Congregation$20,0001n/a
AIDS Outreach Center$15,00010%
Center for Transforming Lives$15,00010%
The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth Incorporated$10,00016%
Cuisine for Healing$5,00011%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rosenthal Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Fort Worth Zoological Association: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Ballet Theater Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPerforming Arts Fort Worth Inc: $67,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetImagination Fort Worth: $50,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMyelin Repair Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetYouth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKids Who Care Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCancer Care Services: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAIDS Outreach Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Transforming Lives: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCuisine for Healing: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · The Roach Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Fifth Avenue Foundation · William E Scott 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Rosenthal 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.

About The Rosenthal Foundation

How much does The Rosenthal Foundation give?
The Rosenthal Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $245,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Rosenthal Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (90%), Arts & Culture (4%), Animals (3%).
Who are The Rosenthal Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Fort Worth Zoological Association ($300k), Texas Ballet Theater Inc ($125k), Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ($100k).
Does The Rosenthal Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Rosenthal Foundation 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 Rosenthal Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Amon G Carter Foundation, Sid W Richardson Foundation.
Where is The Rosenthal Foundation based?
The Rosenthal Foundation is based in TX.

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 22 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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