· Private foundation
Richard W and Irene Rooker Family 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 $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ADA HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| OLD FORT NIAGARA ASSOC INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL HISTORY DAY | $10,000 |
| KCV CYCLING CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| FREMONT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ACCESS TO ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| KOSCIUSKO CARES YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL HISTORY DAY | $10,000 |
| MAY DUGAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER | $5,000 |
| CAMP TAYLOR INC | $5,000 |
| LIFESOURCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- NHNational History Day Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +224%
- IHINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +173%
- OFOLD FORT NIAGARA ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- OFOLD FORT NIAGARA ASSOCIATION INCORPORATEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KCKOSCIUSKO CARES YOUTH SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FORone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The mission of the national museum of industrial history, in affiliation with the smithsonian institute is: to forge a connection between america's industrial past and the innovations of today by educating the public and inspiring the…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Foster, maintain and improve the morale of nps employees and to promote close ties with current nps members and nps alumni.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Riverbend Equine Therapy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 29 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 National History Day Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OLD FORT NIAGARA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama ↗
- Who funds KCV CYCLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Riverbend Equine Therapy ↗
- Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CAMP TAYLOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Richard W and Irene Rooker Family 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.
- National History Day Inc — 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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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