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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 FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$424kCrime & Legal$380kEducation$369kHuman Services$94kYouth Development$65kReligion$64kInternational$55kEnvironment$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $490k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF DC$75,569
LADIES OF VIRTUE$10,000
DC AFFORDABLE LAW FIRM$10,000
LOVE UNITY AND VALUES INSTITUTE$10,000
LIFE SPAN$10,000
HERITAGE SIGNATURE CHORALE$10,000
HIGH JUMP$10,000
AMICA CENTER DC$10,000
PEOPLES MUSIC SCHOOL$10,000
CITY TUTOR DC$10,000
FARY COMER YOUTH CENTER$10,000
WASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA$10,000
ACLU$10,000
FLAP$10,000
THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $10k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $1k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $500 → 14%NEW FUTURES: $2k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $760 → 14%DC AFFORDABLE LAW FIRM: $10k → 14%NEW FUTURES DC: $10k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
FL

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 22 repeat orgs$636k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
21

Total granted

$1.0M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+51%

Still filing today

64%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthOther

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

  • LA
    LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
    5× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +69%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA
    3× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +82%
  • TC
    THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +259%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $70k
  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • TP
    TAX POLICY CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

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.

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Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
4
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
5
The Washington Conservatory of Music

The washington conservatory of music provides exceptional musical learning & listening experiences for students and the community. its vision is a community inspired and informed by the experience of music.

Arts & Culture
6
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
7
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
8
Center City Public Charter Schools

Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.

Education
9
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
10
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture
11
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
12
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc

Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soar. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
15%
6,600/44,444

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 92 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
31/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — $190,474 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBI…Individual grant recipient — $69,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $50,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH — $49,250 · OtherHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCHKENNEDY CENTER — $29,500 · Other+40 more — $263,850 · Other+40 moreCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON — $134,950 · Arts & CultureCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WAS…WASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA — $120,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA+17 more — $137,850 · Arts & Culture+17 moreSPARK THE JOURNEY — $225,000 · EducationSPARK THE JOURNEYTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATI…+9 more — $72,680 · Education+9 moreEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $69,500 · Crime & LegalLaw Center for Better Housing — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID — $10,000 · Crime & LegalLIFE-SPAN — $10,000 · Crime & LegalATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $55,000 · InternationalLADIES OF VIRTUE — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentProject OneTen — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW FUTURES — $12,760 · Human ServicesMERIT AMERICA — $10,000 · Human ServicesDC Affordable Law Firm — $10,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS — $10,000 · Human ServicesTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Human Services+2 more — $1,750 · Human Services
Other$652,574Arts & Culture$392,800Education$357,680Crime & Legal$99,500International$55,000Youth Development$50,000Human Services$47,010

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 budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — $190,474 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON — $134,950 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetWASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA — $120,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $69,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $20,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW FUTURES — $12,760 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEVINE MUSIC INC — $10,850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetONE WORLD EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON DOUGLAS CHORALE — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetThe Heritage Signature Chorale — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetHIGH JUMP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASCEND JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'SCHORUSOFWASHINGTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDC Affordable Law Firm — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Washington Chorus Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SYNCERE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE CONCORD VOICES AND ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe People's Music School — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE-SPAN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFihankra Akoma Ntoaso — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC — $2,430 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT PA — $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $250 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Polk Bros Foundation …Dimick Foundation Joh…The Chicago Community…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark Charitable Foun…John D and Catherine …Harman Family Foundat…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of Metropo…Hattie M Strong Found…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC36.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rossotti Family Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Rossotti Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rossotti Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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