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The Rossotti Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LIFE SPAN$10,000
FARY COMER YOUTH CENTER$10,000
WASHINGTON CHORUS$10,000
INTONATIONS MUSIC WORKSHOP$10,000
MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO$10,000
HIGH JUMP$10,000
CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION$10,000
GO TUTOR CORP$10,000
HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON$10,000
SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
NEW FUTURES DC$10,000
CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON$10,000
LAW CENTER FOR BETTER HOUSING$10,000
ASCEND JUSTICE$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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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
PA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +51% for those 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
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

  • 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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
30/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & LegalCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID: $10,000 · Crime & LegalLaw Center for Better Housing: $10,000 · Crime & LegalLIFE-SPAN: $10,000 · Crime & LegalATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $55,000 · InternationalGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLADIES OF VIRTUE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentProject OneTen: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $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 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 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 budgetGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Washington Chorus Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT SYNCERE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLADIES OF VIRTUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRUE CONCORD VOICES AND ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'SCHORUSOFWASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE WORLD EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDC Affordable Law Firm: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON DOUGLAS CHORALE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe People's Music School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Signature Chorale: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetLIFE-SPAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASCEND JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFihankra Akoma Ntoaso: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $250 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 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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