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Elbert W Rogers Foundation at a glance

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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.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$428kEducation$25kReligion$25kPublic Benefit$17kHousing & Shelter$15kHuman Services$8kPhilanthropy$8kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fine Arts Center Partners$10,000
Metropolitan Arts Council$10,000
International Ballet$10,000
Greenville Symphony Association$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
United Ministries$2,500
Carolina Adaptive Golf$2,500
Greenville Center for Creative Arts$2,500
The Community Foundation of Greenvi$2,500
Spartanburg Philharmonic$2,500
Senior Action Center$2,500
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Carolina Adaptive Golf: $3k → 10%Upstate International Center: $2k → 10%Center for Developmental Services: $1k → 10%Hispanic Alliance: $3k → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$450k · 38 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
25

Total granted

$450k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+31%

Still filing today

76%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BALLET
    5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +87%
  • MA
    METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +73%
  • GS
    GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CM
    Carolina Music Museum
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CA
    Clemson Area Retirement Center Fnd
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • GC
    GREENVILLE CIVIC CHORALE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.

1
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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2
Greenville Art Guild
Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Greenville Light Opera Works

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Greenwood Community Theatre Inc

Greenwood community theatre aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences.

Arts & Culture
6
The Palmetto Opera

To raise awareness of opera and fine arts in sc.

Arts & Culture
7
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
8
Greenville Arts Festival

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

Arts & Culture
9
Workshop Theatre of 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…

Arts & Culture
10
Greenville Choral Society & New Carolina Sinfonia

A community choral and orchestra organization to provide musical arts and education to the citizens of eastern North Carolina.

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11
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 sc.

Arts & Culture
12
South Carolina Arts Alliance

Advances and promotes the arts for all south carolinians through advocacy, leadership, development and public awareness.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Theatre; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
38/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL BALLET: $90,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL BALLETGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $39,675 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $22,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WAREHOUSE THEATREPan Harmonia: $17,900 · Arts & CulturePan HarmoniaSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $16,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATREFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERSPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $13,250 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $64,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $60,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCILCarolina Music Museum: $20,000 · OtherCarolina Music MuseumNat'l Fed of Music ClubsMCOGreenvil: $19,000 · OtherNat'l Fed of Music ClubsMCOGreenvilIndividual grant recipient: $10,500 · OtherTEMPLE OF ISRAEL: $8,500 · OtherClemson Area Retirement Center Fnd: $8,000 · Other+39 more: $104,660 · Other+39 moreSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,000 · Crime & LegalJASMINE ROAD INC: $6,300 · Crime & LegalSERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS: $9,000 · Public BenefitUPSTATE INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $2,500 · Human ServicesUPSTATE CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF: $2,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $1,000 · Human ServicesBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterUNITED MINISTRIES: $7,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$278,325Other$230,660Crime & Legal$13,300Public Benefit$9,000Human Services$9,000Housing & Shelter$7,500Religion$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL BALLET: $90,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $39,675 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $22,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPan Harmonia: $17,900 over 5y, 13% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $16,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS: $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $13,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS: $9,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGREENVILLE YOUTH CHORALE: $9,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $8,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFOOTHILLS PHILHARMONIC: $7,500 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetGreenville Chautauqua Society: $7,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERTREE SINGERS: $7,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJASMINE ROAD INC: $6,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC CLUBS dba THE MUSIC CLUB OF GREENVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGREENVILLE CIVIC CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMILL TOWN PLAYERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE JAZZ COLLECTIVE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRE STAGE-SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRIUNE MERCY CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUPSTATE INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GUILD OF THE GREENVILLE SYMPHONY: $3,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $2,680 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREER CULTURAL ARTS COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUPSTATE CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSUSTAINING WAY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCarolina Youth Symphony: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE THEATRE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGirlUp GVL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENVILLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY EARLY COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGAL MUSIC MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCrown Point High School Alumni Asso: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTamassee DAR School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 Greenville Chautauqua Society ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERTREE SINGERS ↗
  • Who funds SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds JASMINE ROAD INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC CLUBS dba THE MUSIC CLUB OF GREENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE CIVIC CHORALE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MILL TOWN PLAYERS ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
  • 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 TRIUNE MERCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE INTERNATIONAL ↗

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.

The Jolley FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…Scsymmes FoundationScansource Charitable…John I Smith Charitie…United Community Bank…Helga Marston Foundat…The Maddrey FoundationBill and Connie Timmo…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Hayne Hipp FoundationCharles Timmons Found…
The Jolley FoundationNV55.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Elbert W Rogers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elbert W Rogers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Elbert W Rogers Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Elbert W Rogers 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 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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