· Private foundation
Rogers Rissler Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $368k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HAPPY RETREAT | $160,000 |
| THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY | $83,333 |
| ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $75,000 |
| UVA LAW SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UVA FUND | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR ARLINGTON SENIOR PROGRAMS | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $15,000 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH | $15,000 |
| GLENBROOK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WETA | $10,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 13 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $397k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER2× · 2024–2025 · $500k
- ULUVA LAW SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $100k
- UFUVA FUND2× · 2024–2025 · $60k
Funded once
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +12%
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
To foster and support research at west virginia university (wvu) and to provide evaluation, development, patenting, management and marketing services for inventions by the faculty, staff, and students of wvu.
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
Dedicated to increasing public knowledge through washington monthly magazine and website www.washingtonmonthly.com published since 1969, the print magazine is the country's most important watchdog of american government, focusing on what's…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 24 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 FRIENDS OF HAPPY RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Treehouse Child Development Center Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rogers Rissler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rogers Rissler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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