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Rochfort Foundation Inc

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.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$648kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$1,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Georgia$23,500
Ga Institute of Technology$7,500
University of North Georgia$6,500
Kennesaw State College$5,250
Georgia College State Univer$4,500
Mississippi State University$3,000
Georgia Military College$2,750
University of Alabama$2,500
Toccoa Falls College$2,000
Berry College$2,000
Harvard College$2,000
Western Carolina University$1,500
Georgia Perimeter College$1,500
Luther Rice College Seminary$1,500
Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Auburn University: $6k → 15%University of Alabama: $3k → 17%Kennesaw State College: $6k → 8%Truett McConnell College: $3k → 12%University of North Georgia: $7k → 12%Ga Institute of Technology: $8k → 13%Piedmont College: $3k → 14%Columbus State University: $3k → 18%Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College: $4k → 19%Mercer University: $6k → 23%Georgia Southern University: $5k → 24%Georgia College State Univer: $10k → 24%Athens Technical College: $4k → 27%Mississippi State University: $3k → 24%Cumberland College: $25k → 26%Kennesaw State College: $5k → 8%University of North Georgia: $5k → 12%Ga Institute of Technology: $8k → 13%Columbus State University: $3k → 18%Mercer University: $5k → 23%Georgia Southern University: $3k → 24%Georgia College State Univer: $7k → 24%Cumberland College: $10k → 26%Kennesaw State College: $5k → 8%University of North Georgia: $5k → 12%Ga Institute of Technology: $6k → 13%Mercer University: $4k → 23%Georgia College State Univer: $7k → 24%Cumberland College: $10k → 26%Kennesaw State College: $4k → 8%University of North Georgia: $4k → 12%Ga Institute of Technology: $4k → 13%Georgia College State Univer: $5k → 24%Cumberland College: $5k → 26%Kennesaw State College: $3k → 8%Ga Institute of Technology: $4k → 13%Georgia College State Univer: $5k → 24%University of Georgia: $35k → 27%Cumberland College: $5k → 26%Georgia College State Univer: $4k → 24%University of Georgia: $34k → 27%Georgia Military College: $3k → 24%University of Georgia: $33k → 27%University of Georgia: $33k → 27%University of Georgia: $32k → 27%University of Georgia: $32k → 27%University of Georgia: $27k → 27%University of Georgia: $24k → 27%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$636k · 35 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
7

Total granted

$636k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+86%

Still filing today

26%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +158%
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +34%
  • TF
    Toccoa Falls College Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • GT
    Gwinnett Technical College
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • AS
    Albany State University
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • CA
    Clark Atlanta University Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
3
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
4
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
5
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
6
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
7
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
8
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

9
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
10
Tusculum University

Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…

Education
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Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
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Eckerd College

The mission of eckerd college is to provide excellent innovative undergraduate liberal arts education and lifelong learning programs in the unique florida environment, within the context of a covenant relationship with the presbyterian…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samford University and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Georgia — $248,400 · OtherUniversity of GeorgiaGeorgia College State Univer — $37,500 · OtherGeorgia College State UniverGa Institute of Technology — $35,750 · OtherGa Institute of TechnologyKennesaw State College — $29,250 · OtherUniversity of North Georgia — $21,500 · Other+28 more — $177,750 · Other+28 moreUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE …THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $13,500 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF…Toccoa Falls College Inc — $9,000 · EducationToccoa Falls Colle…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $8,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…Samford University — $5,500 · Education+9 more — $17,750 · Education+9 more
Other$550,150Education$108,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetToccoa Falls College Inc — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC — $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuther Rice College & Seminary Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Toccoa Falls College Inc
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Samford University
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE
  • Who funds PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds Spelman College
  • Who funds EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC

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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Ty Cobb Educational Fd Tr Ua · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Rochfort Foundation Inc 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rochfort Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rochfort Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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