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Rogerson Family Foundation

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$78kScience & Tech$27kCrime & Legal$24kEducation$16kArts & Culture$13kHealth$9kHousing & Shelter$5kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$370k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAPA COUNTY SHERIFF'S ACTIVITIES LEAGUE$4,000
GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS$4,000
SACRED HEART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$4,000
CRI FOUNDATION$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $6k → 9%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $6k → 9%PITTSBURG COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $6k → 11%PITTSBURG COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $6k → 11%PITTSBURG COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 8 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$128k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+17%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CHAIRSLAYERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2022 · $27k · revenue +138%
  • WR
    Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $13k · revenue +84%
  • CL
    CHILDREN'S LEGACY CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +232%

Funded once

  • ES
    EASTER SEALS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue -10%
  • HC
    HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • WB
    WE BACK THE BLUE SHASTA
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ccri Inc

The mission of CCRI is to enhance and enrich the lives and learning of people with disabilities. We help people overcome obstacles by offering unique community opportunities to children, adults, and families affected by disability. Our…

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2
Community Resources for Independence Inc

Community Resources for Independence (CRI) is a community based, non-residential, non-profit corporation that provides services to individuals with disabilities in order to maximize their independence and the accessibility of the…

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3
Center for Conflict Resolution

The mission of the organization (ccr) shall be to work with individuals, communities, courts, and other institutions to manage and resolve conflict.

Crime & Legal
4
Catskill Center for Independence Inc

Assist people with disabilities to achieve independence in everyday life.

Human Services
5
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
6
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
Court Community Service

The mission of Court Community Service is to design and manage an efficient system of quality alternative sentencing options responsive to the needs of the courts and the community.

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8
Community Center for the Arts

To connect our creative community by providing a dedicated campus, supporting excellent programming, and nurturing a collaborative spirit.

Arts & Culture
9
Community Link Capital Region

We help people turn ideas into community action through information, planning, civic engagement, and advocacy for human needs in the Sacramento region.

Human Services
10
Center for Creative Land Recycling

The Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) accelerates economic development by helping communities transform blighted, contaminated, and underutilized properties into engines of opportunity. Through targeted education, strategic…

Environment
11
The Children's Law Center

To provide legal services to indigent children in contested custody/ visitation and related cases.

Crime & Legal
12
Clay County Rehabilitation Center

Community service

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Legacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Cri Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTER SEALS INC: $33,333 · OtherEASTER SEALS INCCHAIRSLAYERS FOUNDATION: $26,750 · OtherCHAIRSLAYERS FOUNDATIONNAPA COUNTY SHERIFF'S ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $23,500 · OtherNAPA COUNTY SHERIFF'S ACTIVITIES LEAGUESACRED HEART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $16,000 · OtherSACRED HEART ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWE BACK THE BLUE SHASTA: $5,000 · OtherSARASOTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $11,500 · Other+3 morePITTSBURGH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH COMMUNI…Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc: $12,500 · Human ServicesWomens Resource Ce…CRI FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyCRI FOUNDA…HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND: $5,250 · PhilanthropyHOMELESS C…Great Lakes Center for the Arts: $13,250 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S LEGACY CENTER: $6,750 · Youth Development
Other$121,083Human Services$30,000Philanthropy$17,250Arts & Culture$13,250Youth Development$6,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $33,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAIRSLAYERS FOUNDATION: $26,750 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $13,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCRI FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEGACY CENTER: $6,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND: $5,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 EASTER SEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAIRSLAYERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
  • Who funds Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc ↗
  • Who funds CRI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LEGACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rogerson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rogerson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rogerson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rogerson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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