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The Rosewood 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.

$429k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$1.8MHuman Services$267kHealth$261kRecreation & Sports$223kReligion$150kHousing & Shelter$138kSocial Science$65kPhilanthropy$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$50,000
NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$45,000
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
ANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY THRIFT STORE$15,000
ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST INC$15,000
FUND TEXAS CHOICE$15,000
BRIGID ALLIANCE$15,000
EYE & EAR FOUNDATION$10,000
THE BLESSING BOARD$10,000
ACCESS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES$10,000
EMPOWERS AFRICA$10,000
HEKIMA PLACE$10,000
COPE FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COPE FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $10k → 9%COPE FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $10k → 9%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $15k → 17%HEKIMA PLACE: $10k → 11%HEKIMA PLACE: $10k → 11%GUADALUPE CENTER: $4k → 10%HEKIMA PLACE: $5k → 11%THE BLESSING BOARD: $10k → 11%THE BLESSING BOARD: $10k → 11%THE BLESSING BOARD: $10k → 11%THE BLESSING BOARD: $10k → 11%THE BLESSING BOARD: $10k → 11%THE BLESSING BOARD: $10k → 11%FOX FAMILIES CARE: $10k → 11%FOX FAMILIES CARE: $5k → 11%HEKIMA PLACE: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%THE BLESSING BOARD: $10k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $10k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $10k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $5k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $5k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $5k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $5k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
RI
CA
CO
DE
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 39 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
15

Total granted

$2.7M
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+49%

Still filing today

69%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentRecreation & 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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $520k · revenue +44%
  • TN
    THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $220k · revenue +422%
  • AR
    Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL - SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • CD
    CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • BG
    BLACK GIRLS CODE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -74%
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
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
3
The Ellis School

An independent college preparatory school for girls from age three through twelfth grade.

Education
4
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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5
American Academy of Pediatrics Pennsylvania Chapter

The mission of the pa aap is to promote the equitable health and well-being of all pennsylvania children. as experts in pediatric healthcare, we are committed to fostering collaboration among pediatricians, families, and community partners…

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6
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
7
Angels Place Inc

The mission of Angels Place, Inc. is to provide exceptional family support and quality early childhood education to help parents in need and their children become lifelong learners and create a brighter future.

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8
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation

The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.

Philanthropy
9
Episcopal Academy

Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Children Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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

40 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. 40 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $520,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSSTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $220,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMYSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $175,000 · EducationSHADY SIDE ACADEMYAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC: $70,000 · EducationAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND…EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Education+6 more: $118,750 · Education+6 moreCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $287,500 · OtherCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INCLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $90,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POORTHE WRIGHT INSTITUTE: $65,000 · OtherTHE WRIGHT INSTITUTEANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL: $57,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY THRIFT STORE: $55,000 · OtherTHE CAMPUS SCHOOL OF CARLOW UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · OtherSHADY SIDE ACADEMY- BLUE & GOLD FUND: $52,500 · OtherZION LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL: $37,500 · OtherHOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH: $37,500 · Other+28 more: $352,000 · Other+28 moreTHE BLESSING BOARD: $70,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLESS…HEKIMA PLACE INC: $62,500 · Human ServicesHEKIMA PL…BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH: $42,500 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM…COPE Family Support Center Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOPE Fami…Fox Families Care: $15,000 · Human ServicesFox Famil…THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGI…+2 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $190,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthAccess Institute for Psychological Services: $50,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $90,000 · Housing & ShelterNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 · Philanthropy
Education$1,148,750Other$1,089,500Human Services$234,000Recreation & Sports$195,000Health$155,000Housing & Shelter$90,000Philanthropy$20,500

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $520,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $220,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $190,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $90,000 over 8y, 93% of budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BLESSING BOARD: $70,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC: $70,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WRIGHT INSTITUTE: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEKIMA PLACE INC: $62,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetAccess Institute for Psychological Services: $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH: $42,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH: $37,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAME: $22,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOPE Family Support Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFox Families Care: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBridge Builders Houston Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $12,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH HARDBALL ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew 25 Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
  • Who funds EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BLESSING BOARD ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WRIGHT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HEKIMA PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Access Institute for Psychological Services ↗
  • Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds FAME ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds COPE Family Support Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Fox Families Care ↗
  • Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
  • Who funds Bridge Builders Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds FUND TEXAS CHOICE ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗

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.

The United Way of Sou…The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Massey Charitable Tru…The Grable FoundationEqt FoundationJohn E & Sue M Jackso…The Fine FoundationEden Hall FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Upmc GroupThe Ayco Charitable F…
The United Way of Southwestern PennsylvaniaPA25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Massey Charitable Trust · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · John E & Sue M Jackson Irr · The Fine Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Upmc Group · The Ayco Charitable 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 Rosewood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rosewood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 Rosewood Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rosewood 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 64 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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