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Rockley Family Foundation

To promote music education.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1M
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $411,278, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,514,749 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,103,471 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $385k
$10,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$754k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vanguard University$15,000
San Jose State University$15,000
Miami Dade$15,000
Strathmore$15,000
Los Rios Colleges Foundation (Sac City)$15,000
Westmont College$15,000
Jacksonville Univeristy$15,000
Los Rios Colleges Foundation (ARC)$15,000
McKinney ISD$15,000
Pepperdine University$15,000
Seattle Pacific University$15,000
Maricopa Community College Founation(Mesa)$10,000
San Diego Community College District$10,000
Napa Valley College$10,000
Saint Mary's University$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Maricopa Community College Founation(Mesa): $10k → 11%College of Idaho: $10k → 11%Bethel University: $10k → 14%Napa Valley College: $10k → 9%Vanguard University: $15k → 10%Ohlone Community College: $10k → 10%San Diego Community College District: $10k → 11%Pepperdine University: $15k → 14%Westmont College: $15k → 14%IONA: $10k → 9%McKinney ISD: $15k → 5%Lone Star College Foundation: $10k → 9%Saint Mary's University: $10k → 16%Houston Christian University: $10k → 16%Anderson University: $10k → 15%University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College: $10k → 17%American University: $15k → 14%UCF: $10k → 13%Univeristy of Tampa: $15k → 13%NOVA: $10k → 13%Jacksonville Univeristy: $15k → 14%Miami Dade: $15k → 15%St Charles Community College: $10k → 5%Lewis & Clark College: $10k → 12%Chattanooga State: $10k → 12%Elon University: $10k → 13%Westminster University: $10k → 8%Kennesaw State: $10k → 8%Cleveland State: $10k → 17%Seattle Pacific University: $15k → 9%University of Puget Sound: $10k → 9%College of Lake County Foundation: $10k → 8%CSN: $10k → 13%Dillard University: $10k → 23%Strathmore: $15k → 8%Napa Valley College: $10k → 9%California State Univ Dominguez Hills(CSUDH): $10k → 14%Pulaski Tech: $10k → 17%American University: $10k → 14%University of Tampa: $10k → 13%Miami Dade: $15k → 15%Seattle Pacific University: $15k → 9%Strathmore: $15k → 8%Miami Dade: $13k → 15%Strathmore: $15k → 8%Strathmore: $15k → 8%Strathmore: $15k → 8%Strathmore: $15k → 8%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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
NV
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
$864k · 42 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
8

Total granted

$864k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +14%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +45%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +125%
  • Elon University
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • AU
    ANDERSON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
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
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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
8
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
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Trinity University

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

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is William Jewell College; the most unlike its peers is Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation. 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

70 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/70
Grantees still filing
54/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $65,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYNova Southeastern University Inc: $60,000 · EducationNova Southeastern University IncCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATIONJacksonville University: $30,000 · EducationJacksonville UniversitySEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITYThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $25,000 · EducationDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $20,100 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationTHE NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $20,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Education+21 more: $196,500 · Education+21 moreMIAMI DADE COLLEGE: $42,500 · OtherMIAMI DADE COLLEGECleveland State University: $40,000 · OtherCleveland State UniversityKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITYLos Rios Colleges Foundation: $30,000 · OtherLos Rios Colleges FoundationGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $26,500 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS: $20,000 · OtherPULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $18,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $16,500 · Other+22 more: $218,756 · Other+22 moreTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$541,600Other$462,256Arts & Culture$90,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJacksonville University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLos Rios Colleges Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $20,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $10,356 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHLONE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetElon University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of Lake County Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe College of Idaho Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwestern College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRaritan Valley Community College: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 THE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
  • Who funds Los Rios Colleges Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL ↗
  • Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc ↗
  • Who funds OHLONE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Folds of Honor Founda…Tulsa Community Found…National Collegiate A…Foundation for Califo…Ernst & Young Foundat…American Chemical Soc…Kpmg US Foundation IncThe Trustees of Colum…Ibm International Fou…National Writing Proj…American Association …American Council of L…
Folds of Honor FoundationOK24.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Ernst & Young Foundation · American Chemical Society · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Ibm International Foundation · National Writing Project Corporation · American Association of Community Colleges · American Council of Learned Societies

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 Rockley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rockley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • Jacksonville University: 1% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report 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.

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 67 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 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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