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Mary Stuart Rogers 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $386k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MODESTO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $125,000 |
| LEARNINGQUEST STANISLAUS LITERACY C | $65,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED | $50,000 |
| THE JACK AND BUENA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ALL SAINTS ACADEMY STOCKTON | $40,000 |
| GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDA | $31,000 |
| SIERRA VISTA CHILD FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| OPERA MODESTO | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEARTH CATHOLIC SCHOOL OF PA | $18,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CRISIS CENTER | $17,000 |
| ST ANTHONY OF PADUA SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST STANISLAUS CATHOIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MCHENRY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +50% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- LSLearningQuest Stanislaus Literacy Centers5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +40%
- TJThe Jack and Buena Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +127%
- CFCENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES4× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $110k
- MLMary Lyon Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -79%
- CSCAMP SYLVESTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +117%
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.
Offering access to employment and training information and services, promoting linkages to job seekers and employers, and providing guidance, workplace readiness skills and job training opportunities.
Assistance to library system
Commitment to the prosperity of tulare county by shaping and steering the workforce development system.
San carlos children's theater is a non-profit organization committed to educating youth on all aspects of theater production while nurturing creative expression, teamwork and appreciation for the arts
The Center for the Arts is a cultural and educational organization that promotes and presents the literary, visual and performing arts for the enrichment of the community.
Provide our community the opportunity to invest in the development of quality educational opportunities for all at sierra joint community college district. raise funds in support of our students and college programs.
To support quality educational programs in the arts, dance, drama, music and in physical education for each child in the mill valley school district.
Theatrical productions
To serve as a professional organization that constantly strives to provide the highest standards in musical performances to attract the broadest audience from the region.
Nonprofit community theatre
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for Disabilities and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Crisis Center of Stanislaus County. 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 47 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 59 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 MODESTO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LearningQuest Stanislaus Literacy Centers ↗
- Who funds The Jack and Buena Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA MODESTO INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CRISIS CENTER OF STANISLAUS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Lyon Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP SYLVESTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER MODESTO GREATER MODESTO INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY N ↗
- Who funds MCHENRY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WE CARE PROGRAM - TURLOCK ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WEST BALLET ↗
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: Stanislaus Community Foundation · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Stewart Family Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The Bright Family Foundation · The Parallax Foundation · United Way of Stanislaus County · Legacy Health Endowment · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Mary Stuart 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.
- Mary Lyon Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Symphony Inc — 1% 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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