The Deborah Rose Foundation

• The Deborah Rose Foundation makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a small charity should not send a cold proposal and should first look for a route to an introduction.
• Its typical grant falls between $20,000 and $1,150,000, its median grant is $50,000 and half of its grants are $50,000 or less, so a modest request is more likely to sit within what it usually gives, though the largest grant in the filing was about $3,200,000.
• The filing shows that 95% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded in earlier filings, which suggests that giving is largely relationship-led and that access matters more than an open call.
• No geographic focus is stated; the filing shows most grants in New York, District of Columbia, Maryland and Massachusetts, which is worth knowing but is not a rule about who may apply.
• The foundation's grants span education, culture, community, religious, journalism, historic preservation and public health work, and the filing gives no general approach to selecting grantees, so judge fit from your own work rather than from stated priorities.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Helping Africa Foundation · Charity
  $2,914,4012024 tax year
• Kennedy Center · Charity
  $566,3602024 tax year
• Johns Hopkins University · Charity
  $510,0002024 tax year
• President Fellows Harvard College · Charity
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Temple Isaiah · Charity
  $150,0002024 tax year
• Friends Community School · Charity
  $126,0002024 tax year
• Sakshi Foundation · Charity
  $80,0002024 tax year
• W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation · Charity
  $50,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.