The Rosenthal Family Foundation is the private foundation of “Everybody Loves Raymond” creator Philip Rosenthal and his wife, actress Monica Horan Rosenthal. The Foundation supports left-of-center advocacy groups, arts and culture institutions, and food insecurity relief groups in the greater Los Angeles area and around the world.

Both Rosenthal and Horan are large donors to the Democratic Party. ^[1] Their foundation has given to liberal advocacy groups including Alliance for Justice, Demos, Feminist Majority Foundation, Obama Foundation, and Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. ^[2]

Advocacy Activities

Somebody Feed the People

In October 2020, the Rosenthal Family Foundation created the Somebody Feed the People (SFTP) initiative, a national campaign that provided meals to people while they stood in line at polling places. ^[3] The Foundation partnered with food organizations and matched contributions up to $250,000. ^[4]

The initiative continued after the election to work with organizations that address food access and insecurity, support restaurant workers, generate employment, and strengthen the food system, especially surrounding major political events. ^[5] Partners include World Central Kitchen, Homeboy Industries, Food Forward, Vote.Org, Georgia Rising, and The Good Deed Corps. ^[6]

Political Action

Both Phil and Monica Horan Rosenthal signed an open letter supporting a nuclear agreement between Iran and six other world powers that was led by the United States. The group of 98 Jewish community members ran a full-page ad in the Jewish Journal to urge Congress to approve the agreement. ^[7]

Phil Rosenthal directed former President Bill Clinton’s video, “The Final Days,” as well as wrote material for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that President Clinton attended. ^[8]

Individual Political Donations

The Rosenthal Family Foundation contributed more than $1 million to the Obama Foundation for the Obama Presidential Center in the Chicago area. ^[9] Along with the Rosenthal Family Foundation, other contributors include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and Marilyn and Jim Simons. ^[10]

While the Foundation is prohibited from intervening in elections by federal tax law, in their individual capacities the Rosenthals were guests at the Obama White House for a state dinner with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore. ^[11] According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, Phil Rosenthal has contributed to hundreds of left-leaning Democratic groups and individuals, including Biden for President, Planned Parenthood Votes, Forward Majority Action, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), ActBlue, Swing Left, and Blue Momentum PAC. ^[12]

Finances and Grantees

Grantmaking and Charitable Work

The Foundation made the largest non-government grant to Upper Darby Summer Stage, a musical theatre program in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Monica Horan Rosenthal is a program alum and is providing the lead grant, along with another celebrity Tina Fey to the Upper Darby Arts and Education Foundation and Broughton Foundation Trust. ^[13]

Rosenthal Family Foundation provided charitable support for PBS SoCal. ^[14]

The largest institutional sponsor of Arden Theatre Company, which has a studio theatre named after Monica Horan Rosenthal’s parents, is the Rosenthal Family Foundation with contributions totaling more than $100,000. ^{[15] [16]}

Rosenthal Family Foundation was a patron of the Pen America Virtual Gala held on December 8, 2020, which had an interview with former President Barack Obama. ^[17]

Rosenthal Family Foundation participated in Equality Now’s Make Equality Reality Gala as a member of the Host Committee, which also included Gloria Steinem, Rosanna Arquette, and Nancy and Jeffrey Goldstein. ^[18]

Funding

In 2018, Philip and Monica Horan Rosenthal contributed more than 2 percent of the Foundation’s total contributions, ^[19]  totaling $4 million. The Rosenthal Revocable Trust contributed $2 million. ^[20]

People

Phil Rosenthal

Phil Rosenthal, co-founder and president of Rosenthal Family Foundation, is best known as an American television writer and producer and was the creator, writer, and executive producers of the sitcom, “Everybody Loves Raymond.” He is the host of “Somebody Feed Phil,” a food and travel show on Netflix. ^[21] He has also appeared as a food and travel host on documentaries, including, “I’ll Have What Phil’s Having” and “Somebody Feed Phil.” ^[22]

Rosenthal attended Hofstra University in New York. ^[23]

Monica Horan Rosenthal

Monica Horan Rosenthal, co-founder and CFO of Rosenthal Family Foundation and wife of Phil Rosenthal, is an actress and philanthropist known for her role as Amy MacDougall Barone on the sitcom, “Everybody Loves Raymond.” She was raised in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. She sits on the Arden Theatre as a board member. ^[24]

She is an honorary producer of the play, “My General Tubman.” ^[25]Horan Rosenthal produced a play, “The Three Maries: A Philadelphia Phable,” by Michael Ogborn. ^[26]

Other Philanthropic Work

Phil and Monica Horan Rosenthal co-founded the non-profit, Versa-Style P.E.C. (formally the Flourish Foundation), ^[27] which focuses on introducing the arts, particularly hip-hop dance, to school children. ^[28] Monica Horan Rosenthal is listed as “The Visionary” and Phil Rosenthal is listed as “The Funder.” ^[29] In 2018, Rosenthal Family Foundation allocated $90,500 to Versa-Style P.E.C. ^[30]