Illinois · Private foundation
The Rossotti Family 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.
- $582k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,569
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Rossotti Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $582k | 89% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $210k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $45k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $8k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $333k | 23% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $450k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spark the Journey | $225,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia | $190,474 | 5 | 1% |
| Choral Arts Society of Washington | $134,950 | 3 | 4% |
| Washington Concert Opera | $120,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Equal Justice Works | $69,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Chicago Bar Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Atlantic Council of the United States Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $20,250 | 2 | 0% |
| New Futures | $12,760 | 3 | 0% |
| Levine Music Inc | $10,850 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($336k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rossotti Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · The Chicago Community Trust · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Harman Family Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Hattie M Strong Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Rossotti Family Foundation
- How much does The Rossotti Family Foundation give?
- The Rossotti Family Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $581,569 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Rossotti Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Crime & Legal (23%), Education (22%).
- Who are The Rossotti Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Spark the Journey ($225k), Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia ($190k), Choral Arts Society of Washington ($135k).
- Does The Rossotti Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rossotti Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Rossotti Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Rossotti Family Foundation based?
- The Rossotti Family Foundation is based in IL.
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