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The Stephen and Sandy Rosenthal Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$649k
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 2024.

Education$4.3MYouth Development$1.8MInternational$1.3MPhilanthropy$400kEmployment$125kReligion$100kHuman Services$100kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $346k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$160,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RIVET GLOBAL: $160k → 16%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 12 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$6.4M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+75%

Still filing today

83%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyInternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • YN
    YOUTHFORCE NOLA
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +150%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +65% · 63% of their budget
  • WF
    WATER FOR PEOPLE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.3M · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • FP
    FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +49%
  • WM
    WILBREHAM MUNSON ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • MJ
    MORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $175k · revenue +206%
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
Lycee Francais De La Nouvelle Orleans

Provide free, public french immersion education and prepare students to matriculate in the finest colleges of the world.

Education
2
Libertas College Preparatory

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…

Education
3
Lake Forest Elementary Charter School

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…

Education
4
Ecole Bilingue De La Nouvelle Orleans

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…

Education
5
Loyola University

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…

Education
6
Benola Inc

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…

Education
7
Louisiana Charter School Alliance

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…

Education
8
Crescent City Schools

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.

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9
Educators for Quality Alternatives Inc

To provide struggling high school students with the skills, confidence, and experiences necessary to succeed in the education and career paths of their choice.

Education
10
The Einstein Group Inc

To nurture students to be academically strong, as well as socially and emotionally resilient.

Education
11
Advocates for Art-Based Education Corp

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…

Education
12
Thomas Jefferson School

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 31 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTHFORCE NOLA: $1,549,100 · EducationYOUTHFORCE NOLATeach for America Inc: $495,465 · EducationTeach for America IncBELLTOWER NEW ORLEANS: $300,000 · EducationBELLTOWER NEW ORLEANSTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $200,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL F…NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC: $200,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INCFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $200,000 · EducationFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INCMORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $175,000 · EducationKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $127,600 · Education+5 more: $152,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1,265,459 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMN…UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS: $389,375 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANSCENTER FOR RESILIENCE: $350,000 · OtherCENTER FOR RESILIENCEWILBREHAM MUNSON ACADEMY: $300,000 · OtherWILBREHAM MUNSON ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAREER IMMERSION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $125,000 · OtherST ANNAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherANNA'S PLACE: $100,000 · Other+5 more: $119,402 · OtherWATER FOR PEOPLE: $1,250,000 · InternationalWATER FOR PEOPLEFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $400,000 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE BEYOND INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyRIVET GLOBAL INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $100,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$3,399,165Other$2,924,236International$1,250,000Philanthropy$525,000Human Services$160,000Crime & Legal$100,000

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 budgetYOUTHFORCE NOLA: $1,549,100 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1,265,459 over 5y, 63% of budgetWATER FOR PEOPLE: $1,250,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $495,465 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $400,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR RESILIENCE: $350,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetBELLTOWER NEW ORLEANS: $300,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $175,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRIVET GLOBAL INC: $160,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $127,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE BEYOND INC: $125,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GPOA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLIVING SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACADEMIES OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION: $17,000 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 Greater New Orlea…Pro Bono Publico Foun…The Booth-Bricker FundBaptist Community Min…New Schools for New O…The Gpoa FoundationEntergy Charitable Fo…Nola Business AllianceYouthforce NolaNew Orleans Community…Goldring Family Found…United Way of Southea…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report 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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    How do I get to The Stephen and Sandy Rosenthal Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Stephen and Sandy Rosenthal 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 31 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.

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