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Rockcares the Norris-Rocaberte Family Foundation at a glance

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Rockcares the Norris-Rocaberte Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$338kReligion$115kCivil Rights$80kCrime & Legal$40kArts & Culture$31kYouth Development$23kHealth$13kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MT ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$25,000
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL$25,000
LASSITER NAVAL JUNIOR ROTC CADET PARENT ORGANIZATION$10,000
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 (FY17–17, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%OUTMEMPHIS: $15k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NV
WY
NJ
CA
CO
TN
DC
MS
GA
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$640k · 9 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$640k
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-15%
+59%

Still filing today

56%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $255k · revenue +52%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2017–2023 · $153k
  • GI
    GLSEN INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue -31%

Funded once

  • BO
    BUILD OUR CENTER INC AKA NORTHERN NEVADA PRIDE AKA OUR CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +83%
  • NG
    NEVADA GAY MEN'S CHORUS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -81% · 58% of their budget
  • O
    OUTMEMPHISgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +86%
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
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
2
The Foundation for Gender Equality
Philanthropy
3
Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Outfront Minnesota

Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. in our effort to…

Civil Rights
5
Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities

The guinn center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide research and policy analysis center that provides independent and data-driven analysis of critical policy issues that advance solutions toward a vibrant nevada and intermountain west…

Public Benefit
6
Gender Justice Nevada

Dedicated to an intersectional approach to changing law, policy, and attitudes so that all nevadans can live safely, authentically and free from fear, violence and mistreatment regardless of their sex/gender identity or expression.

—
7
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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8
Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools Incorporated

Gay straight alliance for safe schools incorporated (gsafe) creates just schools for lgbtq+ youth in wisconsin. we do this by: developing the leadership of lgbtq+ youth; supporting gay-straight alliances; training educators; advancing…

Education
9
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
10
One Colorado Education Fund

One colorado education fund (ocef) is committed to securing and protecting equality and opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) coloradans and their families.

Civil Rights
11
Glaad Inc

Founded forty years ago, glaad is the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ("lgbtq") media advocacy organization promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of people and issues across all…

—
12
Healthy Nevada
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Equality; the most unlike its peers is First Umc of Henrietta Tuw W Sheer. 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

19 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. 19 of the 30 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $152,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL: $55,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAULMT ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherMT ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCHNEVADA GAY MEN'S CHORUS INC: $25,000 · OtherNEVADA GAY MEN'S CHORUS INCIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+13 more: $83,750 · Other+13 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUNDATION: $255,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUN…TRIAL LAWYERS COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationTRIAL LAWYERS COLLEGEHTMS Husky Foundation Inc: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationGLSEN INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsGLSEN INCBUILD OUR CENTER INC AKA NORTHERN NEVADA PRIDE AKA OUR CENTER: $35,000 · Civil RightsBUILD OUR CE…OUTMEMPHIS: $15,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCompassion International Incorporated: $5,000 · International
Other$376,250Education$325,000Civil Rights$95,000Human Services$20,000Youth Development$10,000Arts & Culture$6,000International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetGLSEN INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRIAL LAWYERS COLLEGE: $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNEVADA GAY MEN'S CHORUS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetOUTMEMPHIS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHTMS Husky Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPope High School Foundation Inc: $7,750 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBASE CAMP CODING ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeenan's Kids Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

NV Energy Charitable …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rockcares the Norris-Rocaberte Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rockcares the Norris-Rocaberte Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Rockcares the Norris-Rocaberte Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rockcares the Norris-Rocaberte Family 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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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