Skip to content
The Rosenthal Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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.

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 2025.

Philanthropy$10MArts & Culture$461kAnimals$300kHealth$130kScience & Tech$100kReligion$70kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$233k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CLIBURN$50,000
TEXAS BALLET THEATER$50,000
FORT WORTH OPERA ASSOCIATION$50,000
YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH$30,000
IMAGINATION FORT WORTH$25,000
KIDS WHO CARE$25,000
AIDS OUTREACH CENTER$15,000
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 (FY19–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$718k · 6 repeat orgs$389k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$718k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+72%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TF
    THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +21%
  • TB
    TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +160%
  • VC
    Van Cliburn Foundation Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $75k · revenue +240%

Funded once

  • CL
    CHABBAD LUBOVITCH OF FW & TARRANT COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • AS
    All Saints Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +49%
  • CC
    CANCER CARE SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +36%
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
Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc

To provide leadership and advocacy to the arts in fort worth and tarrant county.

Arts & Culture
2
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association

See schedule o-to perform great symphonic music at the highest level of artistic excellence to educate, entertain, and enhance cultural life.-to present engaging music education programs for young people to foster early interest in and…

Arts & Culture
3
Fort Worth Early Music

Public performance of baroque classical music (17th, 18th, and 19th century) using period appropriate instruments.

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
5
Fort Worth Art Association

The fort worth art assocation, a texas non-profit corporation, was established to acquire a collection of works of modern art of the highest quality and to promulgate and maintain a program of art activities and art education in fort…

Arts & Culture
6
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy
7
Texas Cultural Trust Council

Public arts funding

Philanthropy
8
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

—
9
Fort Worth Art Association Endowment Foundation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of the fort worth art association, a sec. 501(c)(3) organization. the foundation is responsible for the administration of the long term investments held for the benefit of the association and its…

Arts & Culture
10
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…

Arts & Culture
11
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Wi Cook Foundation Inc

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Performing Arts Fort Worth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Myelin Repair Foundation Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 22 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $4,600,000 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FDJEWISH FEDERATION OF FORT WORTH & TARRANT COUNTY: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF FORT WORTH & TARRANT COUNTY+1 more: $40,000 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $4,600,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $67,500 · Arts & CultureIMAGINATION FORT WORTH: $50,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $300,000 · AnimalsFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $100,000 · OtherCHABBAD LUBOVITCH OF FW & TARRANT COUNTY: $50,000 · OtherKIDS WHO CARE INC: $25,000 · OtherBETH-EL CONGREGATION: $20,000 · OtherTHE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $3,500 · OtherAll Saints Health Foundation: $50,000 · HealthCANCER CARE SERVICES: $25,000 · HealthAIDS OUTREACH CENTER: $15,000 · HealthCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15,000 · Human ServicesCUISINE FOR HEALING: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$5,640,000Community Improvement$4,600,000Arts & Culture$447,500Animals$300,000Other$208,500Health$90,000Human Services$15,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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 budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $4,600,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $4,600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF FORT WORTH & TARRANT COUNTY: $1,000,000 over 4y, 13% of 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
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.

Thomas M Helen McKee …Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…Mary Potishman Lard T…Ann L Rhodes and Caro…Garvey Texas Foundati…Community Foundation …Amon G Carter-Star Te…The Roach Foundation …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Fifth Avenue Foundati…William E Scott Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rosenthal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rosenthal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Rosenthal Foundation?

    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.

    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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Rosenthal’s filings →

    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