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Rosenbluth Family Foundation

Mill Valley, CA · EIN 42-1564423. Reported 107 grants totalling $881,750 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$881,750granted, 2021-2024
34organizations funded
89%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,645,159assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Rosenbluth Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $45,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
6 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
27 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
45 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Marin Commumity ClinicsSan Rafael, CA$145,000442024
Marinsan Francisco Food BankNovato, CA$145,000442024
Hair to StaySan Francisco, CA$80,000442024
Marin Commuinity FoundationNovato, CA$52,000442024
American Red CrossSan Rafael, CA$40,000442024
Jewish Community FederationSan Francisco, CA$40,000442024
California Fire FoundationSacramento, CA$36,000442024
Operation AccessSan Francisco, CA$28,000442024
The Maven ProjectSan Francisco, CA$28,000442024
Marin Humane SocietyNovato, CA$25,000442024
Planned ParenthoodSan Rafael, CA$25,000442024
First Tee of San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$24,000442024
Vision to LearnLos Angeles, CA$24,000442024
Huckleberry Youth ProgramsSan Francisco, CA$20,000442024
Jewish Vocational ServicesSan Francisco, CA$20,000442024
Next Generation ScholarsSan Rafael, CA$20,000442024
Venitia Valley Elementary SchoolSan Rafael, CA$20,000442024
Ventura County LibraryVentura, CA$20,000222024
Community Foundation of Sonoma CountySanta Rosa, CA$15,000332023
Napa Valley Community FoundationNapa, CA$15,000332023
Ambassadors of Hope and OpportunityMill Valley, CA$12,000442024
The RedwoodsSan Francisco, CA$12,000442024
Tuck School of BusinessHanover, NH$12,000442024
Fresh Lifelines for YouthMilpitas, CA$6,000442024
Temple Beth TorahVentura, CA$5,000112023
American Cancer SocietySan Rafael, CA$4,000442024
MIT OpencoursewareCambridge, MA$4,000112021
Various Organized Charities - Support Available Upon RequestMill Valley, CA$1,250222024
Turning Point FoundationVentura, CA$1,000112021
Vantuna Research Group Occidental CollegeLos Angeles, CA$1,000112022
Beth Chaim CongregationDanville, CA$500112022
Richmond High School's Law AcademyRichmond, CA$500222023
Homeward Bound of MarinNovato, CA$250112023
Ucsf FoundationcardiologySan Francisco, CA$250112023

27 of 34 (79%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 89%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
14 grants
Health Care
12 grants
Education
6 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$203,500$5,000
202227$209,250$5,000
202329$223,250$5,000
202424$245,750$7,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 98% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

California
$866K
New Hampshire
$12K
Massachusetts
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsMarin Community Foundation12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Rosenbluth Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 28 Midhill Drive, Mill Valley, CA, 94941. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 42-1564423 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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