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Rogers Development Foundation

To assist in the development of projects, studies, and other activities and to aid in the planning, development, and improvement of the city of rogers, arkansas.

$303k
Granted FY2017
14
Grants FY2017
6
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k7 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $166k
$10,250
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$165,650
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$20,513
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS$18,750
HENDRIX COLLEGE$13,500
UNIVERSITY OF TULSA$12,750
ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY$12,050
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY$10,250
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$8,750
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$8,000
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVSERITY$7,750
OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$7,000
HARDING UNIVERSITY$6,775
BELMONT UNIVERSITY$6,000
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $13k → 15%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVSERITY: $8k → 19%JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $166k → 14%HENDRIX COLLEGE: $14k → 15%ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $12k → 15%OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $7k → 20%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $8k → 27%NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $21k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $19k → 15%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.

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 field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 14 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — $165,650 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASNORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $20,513 · OtherNORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS — $18,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSASARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY — $12,050 · OtherMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY — $10,250 · Other+3 more — $22,525 · Other+3 moreHENDRIX COLLEGE — $13,500 · EducationHENDRIX COLLEGEThe University of Tulsa — $12,750 · EducationThe University of T…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $8,750 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $7,000 · EducationOUACHITA BAPTIST UN…Belmont University — $6,000 · EducationBelmont UniversityJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationJOHN BROWN UNIVERSI…
Other$249,738Education$53,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE — $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tulsa — $12,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $8,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarding University Inc — $6,775 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 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.

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor 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 Rogers Development 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 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • The University of Tulsa2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rogers Development Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rogers Development 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $402k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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