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T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting Family Foundation

None.

$3.5M
Granted FY2018
44
Grants FY2018
7
States reached
$710k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

64% of T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting Family Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to East Bay Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 35 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

34
’17
35
’18
10
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.

Education$4.7MPhilanthropy$3.0MHealth$160kArts & Culture$121kCommunity Improvement$65kHuman Services$60kAnimals$30kRecreation & Sports$23kEnvironment$10kOther$1.8M
02FY2018 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 44 grants below total $3,413,724 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,513,119 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,395 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $517k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL$710,280
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$392,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$355,125
UNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION$349,500
OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$236,845
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH$150,000
URBAN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL$130,725
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$110,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY HOOVER INSTITUTION$105,000
GO PUBLIC SCHOOLS$90,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$71,465
ENVISION EDUCATION INC$69,850
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$60,000
THRIVAL WORLD ACADEMIES FS SOCIAL GOOD FUND$50,000
AGENCY BY DESIGN FS OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$45,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DONORSCHOOSE: $15k → 17%TAPROOT FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%BLACK TEACHER PROJECT FS NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
RI
CA
MD
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 19 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
19

Total granted

$5.1M
$807k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+51%

Still filing today

74%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthOther

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

  • LC
    LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.4M · revenue +158%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $380k · revenue +189%
  • NE
    NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $348k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $240k · revenue +46%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $128k · revenue +18%
  • EF
    Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +24%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
2
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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4
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy
5
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
6
Elite Public Schools

To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…

Education
7
Leadership Public Schools

Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.

Education
8
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
9
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

—
10
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
11
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education
12
Kipp Bay Area Schools

Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose college, career, and beyond so they can lead fulfilling lives and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is African Wildlife 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.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%35%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr12%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr12%44%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
11%
6,890/60,280

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.

05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
45/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,424,180 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLSTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $731,445 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDGO Public Schools — $390,000 · EducationGO Public SchoolsUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $380,125 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONNATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT — $347,664 · EducationNATIONAL EQUITY PROJECTUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $240,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $210,000 · EducationURBAN MONTESSORI — $183,225 · Education+20 more — $784,246 · Education+20 moreEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,935,985 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+2 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropyOAKLAND LITERACY COALITION — $870,000 · OtherOAKLAND LITERACY COAL…UNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION — $349,500 · OtherUNITED STATES ROWING …OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $152,445 · OtherOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOO…Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $105,000 · OtherElectronic Frontier F…EDUCATION FOR CHANGE — $87,000 · Other+16 more — $291,920 · Other+16 moreTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $160,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $71,465 · Arts & CultureKQED INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNext Step Learning Center Inc — $25,000 · Community ImprovementFaith In Action East Bay — $20,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTRINITY SERVICES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE GILLISPIE SCHOOL — $15,025 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesST HOPE ACADEMY — $10,000 · Human Services
Education$4,690,885Philanthropy$2,960,985Other$1,855,865Health$160,000Arts & Culture$121,465Community Improvement$65,000Human Services$60,025

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,935,985 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,424,180 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $731,445 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGO Public Schools — $390,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $380,125 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION — $349,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT — $347,664 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $210,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN MONTESSORI — $183,225 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $160,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $127,525 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $105,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetENVISION EDUCATION INC — $78,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $71,465 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $66,819 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCORE DISTRICTS — $64,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKQED INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLead Liberated — $45,625 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $45,090 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOR CHANGE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPIVOT LEARNING — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAURUM PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of California Mens Crew — $23,120 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA — $23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLED BETTER INC — $22,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEAST OAKLAND BOXING ASSOCIATION — $20,800 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFaith In Action East Bay — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE GILLISPIE SCHOOL — $15,025 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTAPFOUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEast Oakland Youth Development Center — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOakland Literacy Coalition Inc — $10,250 over 1y, 11% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST HOPE ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPlanting Justice — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSt Helena Montessori School Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 35 MARIN COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

T Gary and Kathleen R…East Bay Community Fo…The Oakland Public Ed…Quest FoundationKenneth Rainin Founda…The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Silicon Schools Fund …Lead LiberatedGolden State Communit…Elbridge Stuart Found…Walton Family Foundat…
T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family FoundationCA55.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Oakland Public Education Fund · Quest Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Schools Fund Inc · Lead Liberated · Golden State Community Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Walton Family Foundation 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 T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Education Resource Strategies Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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