How much did Elbert W Rogers Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of Elbert W Rogers Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

covid relieftheatersuppliestraining

2021

environmentalsundaypianoshowswomen'sseasongreenville

2022

memory charlescharles alanalan leeeducationalchoralfilmeducation

2023

greenville youthshowssundayseasonpaygreenville symphonyinternational

2025

artphilharmoniceducationyouthgreenvillesymphonyseries

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $63k
$10k–50k4 grants · $40k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

Metropolitan Arts Council$10,000
International Ballet$10,000
Greenville Symphony Association$10,000
Fine Arts Center Partners$10,000
Palmetto Project$5,000
The Warehouse Theatre$5,000
The Peace Center$5,000
Music Club of Greenville$5,000
Greenville Jazz Collective$3,000
Carolina Youth Symphony$2,500
Spartanburg Philharmonic$2,500
South Carolina Childrens Theatre$2,500
Carolina Adaptive Golf$2,500
The Community Foundation of Greenvi$2,500
Please Play Me Pianos$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$445k · 39 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$445k

$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+25%

Still filing today

69%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther

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

IB
International Ballet
5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +355%
MA
Metropolitan Arts Council
6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +82%
GS
Greenville Symphony Association
6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +31%

Funded once

CM
Carolina Music Museum
one grant, 2020 · $20k
CA
Clemson Area Retirement Center Fnd
one grant, 2021 · $8k
MT
Mill Town Players Incgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +59%

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

04Your field

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.

Greenville Theatre Arts Center

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Greenville Institute of the Arts

Leaf Institute of Art & Vocation is a unique community non-profit organization with focus on faith and work integration, thoughtful cultural events, and arts education.

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Greensboro Opera Company

Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…

Arts & Culture

Greenville Light Opera Works

Glow lyric theatre is south carolina's only professional lyric theatre that produces opera, operetta and musical theatre that is in response to the social and political climate of the region.

Arts & Culture

Greenville Art Guild

Arts & Culture

South Carolina Philharmonic Inc

To promote the appreciation of classical and other music by providing concert performances and music education to adults and youth of the state of south carolina.

Arts & Culture

Greenville Arts Festival

Create a nationally recognized fine arts festival that enhances quality of life and economic vitality in south carolina.

Arts & Culture

Charleston Symphony Orchestra

The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.

Arts & Culture

Governor's School for the Arts

We serve south carolina's artistically talented students by increasing awareness and raising revenues to ensure excellence in our nation's premiere public residential high school for the arts.

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Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture

The Palmetto Opera

To raise awareness of opera and fine arts in sc.

Arts & Culture

Greenville College

To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Symphony Association and the most unlike its peers is Service Dogs for Veterans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/48

the rest of the field

11%

428/4,078

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.

05the grantee network

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/43

Grantees still filing

30/43

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$259,325Other$252,660Crime & Legal$13,300Public Benefit$9,000Housing & Shelter$7,500Religion$7,000Education$6,000

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.

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.

The Jolley FoundationNV33.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Helga Marston Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Charles Timmons Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Metropolitan Arts Council · John I Smith Charities Inc

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 organisation Elbert W Rogers 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Music Club of Greenville.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841715894 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Music Club of Greenville, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Elbert W Rogers Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Elbert W Rogers Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Elbert W Rogers Foundation?

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Elbert W Rogers Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Elbert W Rogers Foundation?

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