Rachel Roth

Executive Director, Crail-Johnson Foundation 

2024 HALO Award Selection Committee

Having just celebrated 11 years, Rachel Roth is the Executive Director (and sole staff) of the Crail-Johnson Foundation. She is responsible for all aspects of the Foundation, with the exception of investment management. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Rachel attended University of California, Irvine for two years, transferring to Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon where she received her B.A. in Philosophy. She pursued freelance design and then in 2003 was selected as the next Executive Director of her family’s foundation, Roth Family Foundation. She served in that role until December 2012, and currently serves as President. In 2016, she led the Foundation in the planning and implementation of a special anniversary grantmaking program which celebrated the Foundation’s 50th.  Rachel is active with several nonprofits in LA that focus on animal rescue and youth homelessness; she is a member-at-large and former Chair of the Executive Committee of the LA Partnership for Early Childhood Investment and serves on the Investors Committee; Co-chairs a donor-advised fund at Liberty Hill Foundation and serves on the Family Philanthropy Advisory Council for SoCal Grantmakers, as well as the Advisory Committee for their 2024 Annual Conference. She often speaks on funders’ panels as well. Rachel currently lives in Leimert Park, with her two rescue dogs, Levi & Charlie, and her (street-find) cat, Dexter.