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The Thomas Rosato 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EDUCATION AND MENTORING PROJECT | $70,000 |
| CENTRO DE ENSENANZA CORAL CEC | $32,000 |
| LEGADO DE ESPERANZA FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $12,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC | $10,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UPPER MERION POLICE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PETSMART CHARITIES INC | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO | $10,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND | $10,000 |
| AMURTEL INC | $10,000 |
| WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $10,000 |
| SPECTRUM INC | $6,000 |
| AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT | $5,000 |
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 US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($1.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($246k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($246k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Thomas Rosato Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 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; $30k 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
- DRDOMINICAN REPUBLIC EDUCATION AND MENTORING PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +35%
- LDLEGADO DE ESPERANZA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +22%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- AMAnanda Marga Universal Relief Team Incone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -3%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +67%
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 44 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 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EDUCATION AND MENTORING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEGADO DE ESPERANZA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Ludwig's Corner Horse Show Association Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK SKI TOURING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER MERION PARK & HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETSMART CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds GRACE HUDOWALSKI CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Amurtel Inc ↗
- Who funds Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Inc (AMURT) ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Upper Merion Police Association ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALPINE ASCENTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS AFRICA ↗
- Who funds Main Line Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
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: United Way Worldwide · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Thomas Rosato 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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