How much does The Thomas Rosato Foundation give?

The Thomas Rosato Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $374,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Thomas Rosato Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (36%), Education (20%), Environment (12%).

Who are The Thomas Rosato Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project Inc ($600k), Legado de Esperanza Foundation ($178k), The Heritage Foundation ($87k).

Does The Thomas Rosato Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Thomas Rosato Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Thomas Rosato Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Worldwide, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.

Where is The Thomas Rosato Foundation based?

The Thomas Rosato Foundation is based in DE.

The Thomas Rosato Foundation

The Thomas Rosato Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Thomas Rosato 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.

$375k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$664kEducation$369kEnvironment$212kHuman Services$208kPublic Benefit$89kRecreation & Sports$86kAnimals$80kPhilanthropy$43kOther$0

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k19 grants · $98k
$10k–50k11 grants · $177k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EDUCATION AND MENTORING PROJECT	$100,000
LEGADO DE ESPERANZA FOUNDATION	$30,500
HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$25,000
CENTRO DE ENSENANZA CORAL CEC	$16,000
PETSMART CHARITIES INC	$15,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA	$15,000
TURNING POINT USA INC	$15,000
AMURTEL INC	$15,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND	$12,500
WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC	$12,500
SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC	$10,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO	$10,000
UPPER MERION PARK & HISTORIC FOUNDATION	$7,000
MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG	$6,000
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC	$6,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($246k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

Dominican Republic$177k · 7 grants

DO$69k · 2 grants

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. 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 sends the money.

About 7% of The Thomas Rosato Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Thomas Rosato Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 36 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

-1%

Still filing today

86%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

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

DR
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EDUCATION AND MENTORING PROJECT INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $600k · revenue +35%
LD
LEGADO DE ESPERANZA FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +22%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +63%

Funded once

AM
Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Inc
one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -3%
AS
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO
one grant, 2023 · $5k
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +67%

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Adirondack Land Trust Inc

To forever conserve the forests, farmlands, waters and wild places that advance the quality of life of our communities and the ecological integrity of the adirondacks.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research Inc

Prim&r advances the highest ethical standards in the conduct of biomedical, behavioral and social science research. prim&r accomplishes this mission through education, membership services, professional certification, public policy…

Health

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ludwig's Corner Horse Show Association Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

30/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$958,123International$646,100Education$138,000Environment$129,000Human Services$128,500Animals$108,000Public Benefit$104,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

United Way WorldwideVA11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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