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Elbert W Rogers Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fine Arts Center Partners | $10,000 |
| International Ballet | $10,000 |
| Greenville Symphony Association | $10,000 |
| Metropolitan Arts Council | $10,000 |
| Palmetto Project | $5,000 |
| The Peace Center | $5,000 |
| Music Club of Greenville | $5,000 |
| The Warehouse Theatre | $5,000 |
| Greenville Jazz Collective | $3,000 |
| Senior Action Center | $2,500 |
| Greenville Chautauqua Society | $2,500 |
| Carolina Youth Symphony | $2,500 |
| Greenville Center for Creative Arts | $2,500 |
| Foothills Philharmonic | $2,500 |
| South Carolina Childrens Theatre | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- IBINTERNATIONAL BALLET5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +87%
- MAMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +73%
- GSGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CMCarolina Music Museumone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CAClemson Area Retirement Center Fndone grant, 2021 · $8k
- BABELOVED ASHEVILLEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
Glow strives to be the country's most innovative leader in the fusion of opera, operetta and musical theatre. glow seeks to produce nationally recognized work that is socially relevant, and serve as a unique example of utilizing theatre…
Greenwood community theatre aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences.
To raise awareness of opera and fine arts in sc.
Cultural enrichment through arts programs
Create a nationally recognized fine arts festival that enhances quality of life and economic vitality in south carolina.
Our mission is to cultivate a vibrant space where the arts are celebrated, all voices are amplified, and the power of live theatre brings people together. at workshop theatre, we are dedicated to enriching our community by providing access…
A community choral and orchestra organization to provide musical arts and education to the citizens of eastern North Carolina.
To promote the appreciation of classical and other music by providing concert performances and music education to adults and youth of the state of sc.
Advances and promotes the arts for all south carolinians through advocacy, leadership, development and public awareness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Mill Town Players. 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 76 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 INTERNATIONAL BALLET ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Pan Harmonia ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE YOUTH CHORALE ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds Greenville Chautauqua Society ↗
- Who funds SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE SINGERS ↗
- Who funds JASMINE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds MILL TOWN PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC CLUBS dba THE MUSIC CLUB OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CIVIC CHORALE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE JAZZ COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE STAGE-SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
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 Jolley Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · United Community Bank Foundation · Helga Marston Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Charles Timmons 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 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.
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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