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Rogers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $531k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN | $40,000 |
| LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIE | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $30,000 |
| UNL FOUNDATION - UNL STATE MUSEUM | $26,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOO | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| CENTER POINTE | $20,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FDN | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FDTN | $20,000 |
| BRAVEBE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +25%
- NLNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +69%
- LCLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- UFUNL FOUNDATION - BIG RED SATELLITEone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
Community development in lincoln, ne
Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…
Providing advanced life service level support for nine local communities in lincoln county including damariscotta, newcastle, bremen, bristol, south bristol, nobleboro, jefferson and edgecomb
To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Children & Families Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sewing for Babies Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 106 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 LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILKWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MOURNING HOPE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CLINIC WITH A HEART INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY IMPACT ↗
- Who funds Nebraska Brass Inc ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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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