Funding search · EIN 203928172 · Chicago, IL

Rossman Family Foundation

Name: Rossman Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

58
grants reported: $1.6M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $15,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Civic Leadership Foundation3 grants · $630,000
Children'S Place International3 grants · $170,000
Posse Foundation2 grants · $100,000
American Exchange Project2 grants · $85,000
Full Spectrum Features Nfp1 grant · $75,000
New Deal Forum3 grants · $75,000
Education Reimagined2 grants · $67,000
Chicago Public Media - Wbez3 grants · $60,000
Albany Park Theater Project3 grants · $60,000
Lead Guitar3 grants · $60,000

Giving over time

$609,500

2022

$475,000

2023

$562,500

2024

Grant history

All 58 reported grants, largest first.

$240,000
Civic Leadership Foundation · Glencoe, IL · 2022
General purposes
$210,000
Civic Leadership Foundation · Glencoe, IL · 2023
General purposes
$180,000
Civic Leadership Foundation · Glencoe, IL · 2024
General purposes
$90,000
Children'S Place International · Chicago, IL · 2024
General purposes
$75,000
Full Spectrum Features Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purposes
$65,000
Posse Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purposes
$50,000
American Exchange Project · Sudbury, MA · 2024
General purposes
$45,000
Children'S Place International · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purposes
$35,000
Children'S Place International · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purposes
$35,000
American Exchange Project · Sudbury, MA · 2022
General purposes
$35,000
Posse Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purposes
$34,000
Education Reimagined · Washington, DC · 2024
General purposes
$33,000
Education Reimagined · Washington, DC · 2022
General purposes
$30,000
Albany Park Theater Project · Chicago, IL · 2024
General purposes
$25,000
Chicago Public Media - Wbez · Chicago, IL · 2024
General purposes
$25,000
Compassion & Choices · Denver, CO · 2024
General purposes
$25,000
New Deal Forum · Washington, DC · 2024
General purposes
$25,000
New Deal Forum · Washington, DC · 2023
General purposes
$25,000
Chicago Public Media - Wbez · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purposes
$25,000
New Deal Forum · Washington, DC · 2022
General purposes
$20,000
Lead Guitar · Tucson, AZ · 2024
General purposes
$20,000
Accelerate Change · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General purposes
$20,000
Lead Guitar · Tucson, AZ · 2023
General purposes
$20,000
The Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2023
General purposes
$20,000
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General purposes
$20,000
Lead Guitar · Tucson, AZ · 2022
General purposes
$15,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General purposes
$15,000
Albany Park Theater Project · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purposes
$15,000
Albany Park Theater Project · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purposes
$15,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General purposes
$12,000
Convergence-Center for Policy Resolution · Washington, DC · 2023
General purposes
$10,000
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General purposes
$10,000
The Nora Project · Highland Park, IL · 2024
General purposes
$10,000
The Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2024
General purposes
$10,000
Turnout Activism · Cambridge, MA · 2024
General purposes
$10,000
Chicago Public Media - Wbez · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purposes
$10,000
Compassion & Choices · Denver, CO · 2023
General purposes
$10,000
The Nora Project · Highland Park, IL · 2023
General purposes
$10,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General purposes
$10,000
The Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2022
General purposes
$10,000
Working America Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General purposes
$7,000
Accelerate Change · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General purposes
$5,000
Chicago Community Trust · Chicago, IL · 2024
General purposes
$5,000
Convergence-Center for Policy Resolution · Washington, DC · 2024
General purposes
$5,000
Elnet (European Leadership Network) · New York, NY · 2024
General purposes
$5,000
Ground Game Fund · Manchaca, TX · 2024
General purposes
$5,000
Working America Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General purposes
$5,000
Workmoney Foundation · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
General purposes
$2,500
Families Helping Families Chicagoland · Gurnee, IL · 2022
General purposes
$1,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
General purposes
$1,000
Infinity Foundation · Highland Park, IL · 2023
General purposes
$1,000
Princeton Universtity · Princeton, NJ · 2023
General purposes
$1,000
Touchstones Discussion Project · Annapolis, MD · 2023
General purposes
$1,000
Infinity Foundation · Highland Park, IL · 2022
General purposes
$1,000
Innovation 80 - the Chicago Community Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purposes
$1,000
Princeton Universtity · Princeton, NJ · 2022
General purposes
$1,000
Touchstones Discussion Project · Annapolis, MD · 2022
General purposes
$500
Spirit Rock Meditation Center · Woodacre, CA · 2024
General purposes

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.