· Private foundation
Edward and Elyse Rogers Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $15,500 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CPNSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DARK SKY DICSCOVERY | $5,500 |
| MACKINAW CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| LITTLE FORKS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| ELK-SKEGEMOG LAKE ASSOCIATION | $3,500 |
| MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| LAND CONSERVANCY OF WEST MICHIGAN | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA | $1,000 |
| FULBRIGHT ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| WORLD MONUMENT FUND | $500 |
| SAMHATI | $500 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY-GUARDIAN OF THE SEAS | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +260%- MCMACKINAC CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +64%
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN MICHIGANone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY (MICHIGAN)one grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
To conserve natural land and open space - including forests, wetlands, meadows, agricultural lands, and places of scenic beauty - to provide habitat for wildlife and to enrich the lives of people.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samhati. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds ELK-SKEGEMOG LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Midland County ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds The Little Forks Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMHATI ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HERITAGE FUND ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FULBRIGHT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Doan Family Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · The Ludington Family Foundation · Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Edward and Elyse Rogers Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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