· Private foundation
J Robert & Alberta C Rodgers Memorial Charitable Trust
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of J ROBERT & ALBERTA C RODGERS MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SLIPPERY ROCK VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $23,000 |
| COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE | $12,000 |
| THOMAS MORE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CENTER UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| MORAINE TRAILS COUNCIL BSA | $10,000 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $7,900 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| BROAD AND LIBERTY INC | $2,500 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| WESTMINSTER COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM MARY | $1,000 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSN | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- GTGolden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc2× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +89%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +11%- GCGROVE CITY COLLEGE3× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- JBJEAN B PURVIS COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICone grant, 2020 · $20k
- JPJoeys Paw Incone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -24%
- BCBUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICEone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Bradley university empowers students for immediate and sustained success in their personal and professional endeavors by combining professional preparation, liberal arts and sciences, and co-curricular experiences. alongside our dedication…
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Butler university, founded on ideals of equity and academic excellence, creates and fosters a collaborative, stimulating intellectual learning environment. we are inspired to boldly innovate and broadly educate, enriching communities and…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Joeys Paw Inc. 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 55 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 60 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 GRACE YOUTH AND FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Joeys Paw Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HARMONY INC ↗
- Who funds Butler County Association for the Blind ↗
- Who funds Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SLIPPERY ROCK DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Butler County Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KARNS CITY SCHOLASTIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Glenn R Logan & Rhea Jean McCandless Logan Family Trust · The Pittsburgh Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 J Robert & Alberta C Rodgers Memorial Charitable Trust 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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