California · Nonprofit
THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT
THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,700,501 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($5,878,662). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment does
Mission
To support grassroots initiatives to inspire community action to protect the environment, consumers, and public health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through its primary grantmaking program, the rose foundation supports community-based initiatives that help promote environmental stewardship, protect the public interest, and inspire community action. The grants that rose makes are derived from a variety of funding sources including colleague foundations, court-ordered settlement payments, governmental partners, and individual donors.
$9,995,650 spentof which $9,427,362 as grants92% of program spendingThe new voices are rising program works with youth from low-income bay area communities suffering from exposure to toxic pollution. The program helps youth develop leadership and analytical skills through a summer academy, school term fellowships, internships with non-profits and businesses, and field trips to explore environmental careers and volunteer options.
$500,437 spent5% of program spendingThrough its grassroots grantmaking programs, the rose foundation focuses special attention on small and emerging environmental charities, who may have trouble securing funding from traditional sources, and provides them with seed funding and training.
$328,494 spentof which $176,559 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,824,581.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $29M (+111%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Angela Aiko Pandorf
Interim executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $561k → $186k.
15 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $265k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 88% · 2019 53% · 2020 54% · 2021 60% · 2022 70% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
32% of THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $442k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$442k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT?
- THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,700,501 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($5,878,662). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $13,700,501 in grants to THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $5,878,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing