· Private foundation
The Stephen and Sandy Rosenthal Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $346k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH FORCE NOLA | $649,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE | $403,528 |
| RIVET GLOBAL | $160,000 |
| BELLTOWER NEW ORLEANS | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS | $85,800 |
| CENTER FOR RESILIENCE | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YNYOUTHFORCE NOLA4× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +150%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +65% · 63% of their budget
- WFWATER FOR PEOPLE2× · 2019–2020 · $1.3M · revenue +59%
Funded once
- FPFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +49%
- WMWILBREHAM MUNSON ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $300k
- MJMORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $175k · revenue +206%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide free, public french immersion education and prepare students to matriculate in the finest colleges of the world.
The mission of libertas college preparatory charter school is to equip middle school students in grades 4-8 with the academic skills and the strength of character needed to thrive in and graduate from high-performing high schools and…
To provide a nurturing environment, which facilitates maximum student achievement through a rigorous, accelerated academic program incorporating visual, cultural and creative arts, which will ultimately enhance each student's ability to…
The mission of ecole bilingue is to develop globally literate students through a rigorous bilingual french-american curriculum, set in a nurturing and multicultural community. we guide our students to excel academically, foster their…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The mission of Black Education For New Orleans BE NOLA is to support Black educators and schools to ensure an education that creates better outcomes and opportunities for Black children in New Orleans as a critical factor in building a…
The mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities…
The mission of crescent city schools is to support, develop and manage open enrollment charter schools that raise student achievement and prepare students for college.
To provide struggling high school students with the skills, confidence, and experiences necessary to succeed in the education and career paths of their choice.
To nurture students to be academically strong, as well as socially and emotionally resilient.
Advocates for arts-based education corporation is a nonprofit entity that operates the willow school. the willow school is a kindergarten through 12th grade new orleans public school located in uptown new orleans. a charter school is a…
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Gpoa Foundation. 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 16 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 30% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds YOUTHFORCE NOLA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds BELLTOWER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIVET GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE GPOA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACADEMIES OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds RENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Baptist Community Ministries · New Schools for New Orleans Inc · The Gpoa Foundation · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Nola Business Alliance · Youthforce Nola · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana
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 Stephen and Sandy Rosenthal 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.
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.
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