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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 06-1575216

Fredy Rosenbaum Foundation

A private foundation in Palo Alto, CA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 11 grants and $74,000 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

6 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $74,000

    Grants listed
    11
    Assets, end of year
    $1,602,523
  • Tax year 2024

    $67,800

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $1,465,042
  • Tax year 2023

    $64,500

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $1,319,204
  • Tax year 2022

    $49,000

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $1,115,215
  • Tax year 2021

    $45,580

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $1,036,698
  • Tax year 2020

    $45,200

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $972,937

Grants paid in 2025

11 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor ResearchHewlett, NY

    Improving the quality of life, medical care and survivaltimes for brain tumor patients

    $20,000
  2. Hand in HandPortland, OR

    Multicultural schoolsfor Jews and Arabsin Israel

    $10,000
  3. Water for PeopleGreenwood Village, CO

    Drinking water and sanitationin Guatemala

    $9,000
  4. Friends of Neve ShalomWahat al-SalamGlendale, CA

    Dialogue, cooperation and peacebetween Arabs and Jewssupporting the Oasis of Peace

    $8,000
  5. Child AidLake Oswego, OR

    Increasing literacy toalleviate poverty amongGuatemalan rural children

    $6,000
  6. Abraham InitiativesNew York, NY

    Promoting coexistenceamong IsraelsJews and Arabs

    $6,000
  7. Maya Educational FoundationCambridge, MA

    Full year collegescholarships forindigenous Mayans

    $5,000
  8. Cooperative for EducationCincinnati, OH

    Help Guatemalan schoolchildrenbreak the circle of poverty through education

    $4,000
  9. Friends of Sharing the DreamVermillion, SD

    Promote fair trade withcooperatives and smallbusinesses in Guatemala

    $4,000
  10. Safe PassageCamino SeguroNew Gloucester, ME

    Education and support for children living around the landfill in Guatemala City

    $1,000
  11. Education for the ChildrenDenver, CO

    Ending the cycle of poverty through holistic educationin Jocotenango, Guatemala

    $1,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. International aid3 grants $21,00084% of the total
  2. Education1 grant $4,00016% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York2 grants $26,000
  2. Oregon2 grants $16,000
  3. Iowa1 grant $9,000
  4. California1 grant $8,000
  5. Massachusetts1 grant $5,000
  6. Ohio1 grant $4,000
  7. South Dakota1 grant $4,000
  8. Colorado1 grant $1,000
  9. Maine1 grant $1,000

Officers, directors and trustees

3 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Sonia RosenbaumTrustee Hours 5Pay $0
  • Brenda RosenbaumTrustee Hours 1.5Pay $0
  • Susanna RosenbaumTrustee Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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