Nebraska · Private foundation
Rogers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $613k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Rogers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $613k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $596k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $597k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $553k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $539k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $545k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $567k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $613k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Children's Zoo | $265,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $235,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Tabitha Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Madonna Foundation | $140,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Lincoln Children's Museum | $140,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries | $140,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Lincoln Baseball Association Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 53% |
| Lincolnlancaster County Child Advocacy Center | $115,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc | $113,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Bright Lights Inc | $113,000 | 8 | 6% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rogers Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: D F Dillon Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Pegler Family Foundation · Viking Foundation of Lincoln · Duncan Family Trust
How this is measured
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About Rogers Foundation
- How much does Rogers Foundation give?
- Rogers Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $613,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rogers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Arts & Culture (16%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Rogers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lincoln Children's Zoo ($265k), Food Bank of Lincoln Inc ($235k), The Tabitha Foundation Inc ($200k).
- Does Rogers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rogers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rogers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include D F Dillon Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Abel Foundation.
- Where is Rogers Foundation based?
- Rogers Foundation is based in NE.
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