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Rocker Family Foundation

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.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$80kReligion$79kPhilanthropy$38kEducation$15kHuman Services$15kFood & Nutrition$13kYouth Development$13kCrime & Legal$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$269k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$26,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MSU$9,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$8,000
SOAR$6,600
ST ANNA'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$6,000
BACK PORCH CHURCH$5,000
CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN EXPRESS$3,000
HOLY GHOST CHURCH$3,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB METRO LA$2,500
NORTHSHORE STEM COALITION$2,500
DELTA ZETA SORORITY$2,000
OPTIONS$1,500
HAMMOND UNION OF POLICE$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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%H2O MINISTRIES: $3k → 13%OPTIONS: $8k → 20%OPTIONS: $8k → 20%OPTIONS: $7k → 20%OPTIONS: $7k → 20%OPTIONS: $7k → 20%OPTIONS: $2k → 20%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 23%THE FIRST 72: $500 → 23%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

IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
TX
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$321k · 34 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
70

Total granted

$321k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+4%

Still filing today

38%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • OI
    OPTIONS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +0%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +7%
  • NF
    Northshore Food Bank
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • EH
    EBF3 HADDS Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +11%
  • DH
    DODWELL HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • OD
    OUR DAILY BREAD
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation Inc

Support of the new orleans police department and orleans parish criminal justice system along with crime prevention activities with the public. nopjf helps the nopd initiate innovative programs that make new orleans a safer place to live,…

Crime & Legal
2
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
3
Casa - New Orleans

Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.

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4
Care Net Center of Greater Orleans

Pregnancy counseling

Unclassified
5
New Orleans Family Justice Alliance

The organization is a partnership of agencies dedicated to ending family violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and stalking through prevention and coordinated response by providing comprehensive client-centered, empowerment services in a…

Human Services
6
A Child's Wish of Louisiana Inc

To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.

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7
Louisiana Center for Children's Rights

Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.

Crime & Legal
8
The Arc of Louisiana

The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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9
Easter Seals Louisiana Inc

To change the way the world defines and views disabilities by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day.

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10
New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center

To provide comprehensive evaluations and treatment for communication disorders, i.e. speech, language, reading, fluency, voice, and hearing, and dispensing of hearing aids.

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11
Cancer Association of Greater New Orlean

To fight cancer through research, education, and service to patience and their families.

Health
12
Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless

The Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is H2O Ministries Inc. 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

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 130 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
17/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $57,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST ANNAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $42,000 · OtherST ANNAS EPISCOPAL CHURCHVARIOUS: $31,530 · OtherVARIOUSIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMSU: $20,000 · OtherLUTHERAN WOMENS MISSIONARY LEAGUE: $17,500 · OtherSOAR: $16,600 · Other+108 more: $175,290 · Other+108 moreOPTIONS INC: $36,500 · Human ServicesOPTIONS IN…COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $6,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT H…H2O MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesH2O MINIST…+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesEBF3 HADDS Foundation: $12,000 · HealthCUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $3,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,500 · HealthMORE THAN FORE INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthST TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY: $9,500 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS INC: $1,000 · AnimalsCHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $8,200 · Civil RightsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,000 · InternationalSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $5,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$385,920Human Services$46,000Health$23,500Animals$10,500Civil Rights$8,200International$8,000Food & Nutrition$5,500

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 budgetOPTIONS INC: $36,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEBF3 HADDS Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetST TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $8,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorthshore Food Bank: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetH2O MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCount Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTARC INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNo One Fights Alone: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRhodes College: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRIME STOPPERS OF TANGIPAHOA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget18TH WARD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE ALAS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe First 72: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESOPHAGEAL CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $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.

  • Who funds OPTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds EBF3 HADDS Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Northshore Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds H2O MINISTRIES INC ↗

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.

The Greater New Orlea…United Way of Southea…Shell USA Company Fou…Baptist Community Min…The Mary Freeman Wisd…Oscar J Tolmas Charit…Goldring Family Found…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Second Harvest Food B…Second Chance Foundat…Reach FoundationLuther and Zita Templ…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA32.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · Goldring Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Second Chance Foundation · Reach Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman 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 Rocker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rocker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 130 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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