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The Rosenthal Foundation Inc

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.

$536k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$770kPhilanthropy$654kEducation$213kHuman Services$101kReligion$41kHealth$14kPublic Benefit$10kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$1,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY$400,000
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS$50,000
TEMPLE ADATH ISRAEL$25,000
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$5,000
LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATER$5,000
LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATER$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY CENTRAL KENTUCKY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$3,000
HENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP$3,000
CENTRE COLLEGE$3,000
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S AT UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$2,000
CASA OF LEXINGTON$2,000
THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER$2,000
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 (FY23–25, $153k) 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 its 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: $50k → 15%CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS: $500 → 15%CASA OF LEXINGTON: $2k → 15%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 16 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$1.7M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+15%

Still filing today

81%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TB
    TOWN BRANCH PARK INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $770k · revenue +7%
  • TU
    TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $548k · revenue +30%
  • CD
    CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $151k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PHILANTHROPY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • OI
    OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +15%
  • HO
    Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +8%
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
Commerce Lexington Inc

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

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2
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
3
Civiclex Incorporated

Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Lexington History Museum Inc

Local history museum for lexington and fayette county, kentucky

Arts & Culture
8
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
9
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
10
Lexington Playcare Center Inc

LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…

Human Services
11
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kentucky Inc

Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.

Crime & Legal
12
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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Children's Theatre Inc; the most unlike its peers is Osteogenesis Imperfecta 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

26 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. 26 of the 34 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $770,000 · Recreation & SportsTOWN BRANCH PARK INCAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $650,168 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $548,447 · EducationTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY+1 more: $3,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $88,000 · OtherUNIVERSIT…TEMPLE ADATH ISRAEL: $65,000 · OtherTEMPLE AD…+16 more: $37,000 · Other+16 moreCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $150,500 · Human Services+3 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP: $8,000 · Public BenefitPAWS 4 THE CAUSE INC: $500 · Public Benefit
Recreation & Sports$770,000Philanthropy$656,168Education$551,447Other$190,000Human Services$154,000Arts & Culture$22,500Public Benefit$8,500

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 budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $770,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $650,168 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $548,447 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $150,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP: $8,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LEXINGTON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENHOUSE17 INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS 4 THE CAUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 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.

Blue Grass Community …Hilary Boone Foundati…Nisource Charitable F…Baird Foundation IncRosenstein Family Cha…American Water Charit…Dean Dorton Allen For…Honorable Order of Ke…William T Young Found…The HEP Foundation Bu…The Mt Brilliant Fami…Ee Murry Family Found…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% 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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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