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Rogers Rissler Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $581k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $580,628 |
| UVA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CATF | $30,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE | $25,000 |
| WVU HOSPITALS EAST FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HAPPY RETREAT | $10,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH OF ST JAMES THE GREATER | $10,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY FARMLAND PROTECTION BOARD | $10,000 |
| ST AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| UVA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,886 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
43 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 36 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2023 · $706k · revenue +191%
- FOFRIENDS OF HAPPY RETREAT INC5× · 2018–2023 · $105k · revenue +69% · 30% of their budget
- HOHOUSE OF RUTH3× · 2018–2021 · $70k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINAone grant, 2022 · $100k
- CACONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +38%
United Help Ukraine Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -81%
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.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
To create, share and steward the national database of sheltered animals that provides facts and enables insights to save lives.
Prevention of cruelty to animals through advocacy and community in need. reduction and eventual elimination of the killing of cats and dogs by actively promoting.
Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
To improve the lives of pets and people in the community; to provide and promote education concerning the proper care of animals; to provide medical services, socialization, and enrichment to animals; (see schedule o for continuation)to…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is William L Clay Scholarship and Research Fund. 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 41 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 71 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 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAPPY RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn ↗
- Who funds OLD CHARLES TOWN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Dallas ↗
- Who funds Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds USA Shooting Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds SPAY TODAY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS ↗
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: Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Verizon Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Rissler 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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