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Rodman 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k82 grants · $210k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA | $20,000 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $17,500 |
| YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| PROPERTIES FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS COMMUNITY FUND | $7,500 |
| YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $7,500 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF BETHESDA BY THE SEA | $6,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST COLORADO | $5,500 |
| WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $5,000 |
| MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Williams College6× · 2019–2024 · $153k · revenue +13%
ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +60%- CVCOACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY6× · 2019–2024 · $103k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SGSt Georges Center Inc dba St George Tableone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -5%
- PSPEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +17%
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +31%
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.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Purpose Dignity Action and the most unlike its peers is Weyerhaeuser Family Foundationinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
96 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. 96 of the 120 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAYWOLF PRESS ↗
- Who funds PATH WITH ART ↗
- Who funds WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE YAMPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RYAN LICHT SANG BIPOLAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds BATH & TENNIS HISTORIC BUILDING PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Driscoll Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust
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 Rodman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yamhill Community Action Partnership — 61% of income from government
- Willamette Jazz Society — 8% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% 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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