· Private foundation
Rogers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIE | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $30,000 |
| LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| UNL FOUNDATION - UNL STATE MUSEUM | $26,000 |
| LINCOLN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOO | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| CENTER POINTE | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN | $20,000 |
| NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FDTN | $20,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FDN | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BRAVEBE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +25%
- TMTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +87%
- LCLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- WCWILLARD COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- UFUNL FOUNDATION - BIG RED SATELLITEone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES ↗
- 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 THE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY IMPACT ↗
- Who funds Nebraska Brass Inc ↗
- Who funds Nebraska Jazz Orchestra Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rogers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rogers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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