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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.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$742kHealth$726kArts & Culture$403kEnvironment$254kHuman Services$214kPhilanthropy$139kReligion$124kYouth Development$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,520
Median grant
2
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO$3,500
ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION$2,520
ACHIEVEMENT CENTER OF TEXAS$100
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 (FY20–24, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE - NY: $50 → 17%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $275 → 5%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $2k → 20%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $104 → 12%ORPHANOS FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%HEART FOR ORPHANS: $250 → 7%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $150 → 5%ORPHANOS FOUNDATION: $450 → 17%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES: $100 → 8%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $50 → 20%ORPHANOS FOUNDATION: $257 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 16%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $50 → 20%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES: $52 → 8%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 12%CORE: $105 → 14%MODEST NEEDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%WICHITA CHILDRENS HOME: $500 → 16%OPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $100 → 10%INCARNATION HOUSE: $200 → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 14%CARSON'S VILLAGE: $155 → 14%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD: $10k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD: $5k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD: $3k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $15k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $10k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $235 → 14%OUR CALLING: $50 → 14%TO BE LIKE ME: $3k → 14%DALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $8k → 14%DALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $8k → 14%DALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $8k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $10k → 14%ACHIEVEMENT CENTER OF TEXAS: $100 → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $20k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $3k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $2k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $5k → 14%DELIVER FUND: $10k → 14%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $3k → 14%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $1k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $100 → 14%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

WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 126 repeat orgs$585k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

126 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 125 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
201

Total granted

$2.6M
$582k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+25%

Still filing today

74%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • RF
    RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST
    3× · 2020–2022 · $216k · revenue +28%
  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $160k · revenue +18%
  • HH
    HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $139k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXASgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $141k · revenue +712%
  • FC
    FAMILY COMPASS
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • MI
    Momentous Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +31%
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
3
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
4
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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5
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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6
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
7
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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8
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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9
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
10
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
11
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
12
Trellis Foundation

We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Andrew Sabin Family 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

231 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. 231 of the 333 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)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
224/231
Grantees still filing
167/231
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COVENANT SCHOOL - DALLAS: $105,000 · OtherCOVENANT SCHOOL - DALLASTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION: $96,463 · OtherTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $76,100 · OtherTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INCCENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING: $66,103 · OtherDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $63,000 · OtherWINGS: $55,000 · OtherESSILOR VISION FOUNDATION: $46,250 · Other+105 more: $789,577 · Other+105 moreRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $215,730 · HealthRETINA FOUNDATION …HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $139,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINI…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $41,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SO…PARKLAND FOUNDATION: $30,250 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATIO…Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $30,000 · HealthNexus Recovery Cen…+10 more: $51,207 · Health+10 moreTHE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $141,001 · EducationTHE COMPASS SCHO…PRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationPRINCE OF PEACE …EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $49,445 · EducationEDUCATIONAL OPPO…CARLTHORP SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationCARLTHORP SCHOOLTexas A&M Foundation: $24,500 · EducationTexas A&M Founda…WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $20,663 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,250 · Education+20 more: $113,202 · Education+20 moreDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDR…DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $80,175 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHO…The Dallas Opera: $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas Op…THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SC…FRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of Art: $14,995 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $31,437 · Arts & Culture+9 moreJohn Bunker Sands Wetland Center Inc: $138,135 · EnvironmentTexas Agricultural Land Trust: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $21,000 · EnvironmentDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,659 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $20,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,259 · EnvironmentCITYSQUARE: $35,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $25,500 · Human ServicesDALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $22,500 · Human ServicesTRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $17,950 · Human ServicesDeliverFund: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONCILIO: $10,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $7,500 · Human Services+9 more: $27,205 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $124,720 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $10,400 · Philanthropy+6 more: $16,962 · Philanthropy
Other$1,297,493Health$507,187Education$459,061Arts & Culture$381,607Environment$231,053Human Services$155,655Philanthropy$152,082

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $215,730 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $160,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $141,001 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $139,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJohn Bunker Sands Wetland Center Inc: $138,135 over 3y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $124,720 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $80,175 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $76,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $63,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Dallas Opera: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $49,445 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetESSILOR VISION FOUNDATION: $46,250 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $41,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS: $40,103 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCARLTHORP SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $32,525 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $30,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Agricultural Land Trust: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Place: $25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMomentous Institute: $25,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $24,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $22,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $21,068 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $20,663 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,659 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COOPER INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $17,950 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $14,995 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $12,260 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $11,050 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $10,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $10,103 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDeliverFund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Dallas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationHillcrest FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Texas Instruments Fou…The Moody FoundationThe Addy FoundationThe Perot FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Rees-Jones Founda…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX68.6× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones 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 · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
52report 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 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 333 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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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