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Aaron Rodgers Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.4MHealth$2.0MFood & Nutrition$650kEnvironment$600kPublic Safety & Disaster$500kReligion$375kYouth Development$250kHuman Services$147kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENLOE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
ONTOS FOUNDATION$600,000
TUSHITA KADAMPA BUDDHIST CENTER$100,000
MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION$60,000
MORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATION$50,000
NEW YORK JETS FOUNDATION INC$50,000
MARKET STREET MISSION INC$25,000
NOURISH NJ INC$25,000
HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC$25,000
INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC$25,000
LIONS DISTRICT 4C-1 HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TUSHITA KADAMPA BUDDHIST CENTER: $100k → 10%YOUNG LIFE: $100k → 10%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BAY AREA: $25k → 10%MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $60k → 12%THE CENTER FOR INTEGRAL WISDOM: $250k → 13%LIONS DISTRICT 4C-1 HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%LIONS DISTRICT 4C-1 HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 18%BRIDGE TO ONE: $500k → 15%GIVE MERIT INC: $25k → 21%WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 5%PAULS PANTRY INC: $75k → 10%ONTOS FOUNDATION: $600k → 8%MILT SILVERMAN ASTROLOGY FUND: $100k → 12%MORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%THE SALVATION ARMY: $29k → 14%MARKET STREET MISSION INC: $25k → 4%PAY IT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 8%YOUNG LIFE: $100k → 10%NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 18%PAULS PANTRY INC: $25k → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY: $24k → 14%NOURISH NJ INC: $25k → 4%NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%THE SALVATION ARMY: $94k → 10%HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $25k → 4%NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 18%INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $25k → 4%ENLOE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 18%NEW YORK JETS FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 4%ENLOE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 18%LIONS DISTRICT 4C-1 HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION: $15k → 18%Pleasant Valley High: $11k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
OR
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Aaron Rodgers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Aaron Rodgers Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 5 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -40% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$2.4M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-40%

Still filing today

60%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $960k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHealthReligionCrime & LegalEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EH
    ENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue -12%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +62%
  • PP
    PAUL'S PANTRY INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • BT
    BRIDGE TO ONE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -52% · 26% of their budget
  • T3
    THE 30 DAY FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -100%
  • TC
    The Center for Integral Wisdom
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation

The morrison & foerster foundation enables the people of morrison & foerster to focus their charitable giving on nonprofit organizations serving people in the communities in which the firm's personnel live and work.

Philanthropy
3
The Ironman Foundation Inc

To leave ironman's legacy through philanthropy, volunteerism and grant making; by supporting various athletic, community, education, health, human services and public benefit non-profit organizations around the world.

Philanthropy
4
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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5
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
6
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
7
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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8
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
9
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
10
John Muir Health Foundation

John muir health foundation is dedicated to inspiring and stewarding philanthropic support for all programs, services and facilities of john muir health

Health
11
Better Food Foundation Inc

To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New York Jets Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
6/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,283,400 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $60,000 · PhilanthropyENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · HealthENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION+1 more: $50,000 · HealthTHE 30 DAY FUND INC: $500,000 · OtherTHE 30 DAY FUND …TUSHITA KADAMPA BUDDHIST CENTER: $100,000 · OtherTUSHITA KADAMPA …MILT SILVERMAN ASTROLOGY FUND: $100,000 · OtherMILT SILVERMAN A…THE SALVATION ARMY: $94,275 · OtherTHE SALVATION AR…THE SALVATION ARMY: $52,963 · OtherNEW YORK JETS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherLIONS DISTRICT 4C-1 HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Other+4 more: $85,888 · Other+4 moreBRIDGE TO ONE INC: $500,000 · Food & NutritionBRIDGE TO …PAUL'S PANTRY INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionPAUL'S PAN…NOURISHNJ INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionONTOS FOUNDATION: $600,000 · EnvironmentONTOS FOU…The Center for Integral Wisdom: $250,000 · ReligionYOUNG LIFE: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIVE MERIT INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$2,443,400Health$2,050,000Other$1,028,126Food & Nutrition$650,000Environment$600,000Religion$250,000Youth Development$200,000Crime & Legal$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,283,400 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetONTOS FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetBRIDGE TO ONE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Center for Integral Wisdom: $250,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL'S PANTRY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK JETS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGIVE MERIT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aaron Rodgers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aaron Rodgers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Aaron Rodgers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aaron Rodgers Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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