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The Rosenthal Foundation Inc

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.

$502k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Recreation & Sports$770kPhilanthropy$654kEducation$213kHuman Services$101kReligion$41kHealth$14kPublic Benefit$10kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN BRANCH PARK INC$300,000
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY$100,000
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS$50,000
TEMPLE ADATH ISRAEL$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$5,000
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY$5,000
OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$2,500
HENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP$2,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS$1,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE BLUEGRASS$1,500
GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK$1,000
COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET$1,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL$1,000
THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $500 → 15%CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS: $50k → 15%CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS: $50k → 15%CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS: $500 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 16 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$1.2M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+8%

Still filing today

81%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TB
    TOWN BRANCH PARK INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $770k · revenue +7%
  • TU
    TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $143k · revenue +30%
  • CD
    CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $101k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PHILANTHROPY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • HO
    Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
2
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
3
Lexington Public Library

Our mission is to enrich and connect our community through welcoming spaces, engaged staff, diverse resources, and lifelong learning opportunities. we create a stronger community by meeting our customers where and how they need us and…

Education
4
Kentucky Bankers Association

To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…

5
Georgetown College

Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…

Education
6
Lexington Children's Theatre Inc

To provide professional theatre experiences for young audiences. to provide quality theatre education for young people annually. lct provides quality theatre experiences and theatre arts education for as many as 150,000 children throughout…

Arts & Culture
7
Boston Architectural College

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

8
The Kentucky Science Center Inc

Our mission is to inspire curiosity and empower individuals to explore and experiment with science in all its forms. we embrace a "do science" philosophy: play, tinker, collaborate, test, experiment, learn from mistakes, and try again.…

Arts & Culture
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

11
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
12
Bluegrass Land Conservancy Inc

Founded in 1995, bluegrass land conservancy is a community-supported, nonprofit, nationally accredited land trust working to protect land in the bluegrass region of kentucky through permanent conservation easements. we do this through…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOWN BRANCH PARK INC — $770,000 · Recreation & SportsTOWN BRANCH PARK INCAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $650,168 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION+1 more — $4,000 · PhilanthropyTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY — $143,447 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — $75,000 · OtherTEMPLE ADATH ISRAEL — $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PHILANTHROPY — $5,000 · OtherHENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP — $5,000 · Other+8 more — $10,000 · OtherCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $100,500 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $2,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY — $1,000 · Arts & CultureOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $1,000 · Health
Recreation & Sports$770,000Philanthropy$654,168Education$143,447Other$135,000Human Services$101,000Arts & Culture$7,000Health$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC — $770,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $650,168 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY — $143,447 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $100,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP — $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · William T Young Foundation Inc · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Ee Murry Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Rosenthal Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Rosenthal Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Rosenthal Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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