· Private foundation
The James Samuel Rogers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The James Samuel Rogers Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Orange County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The James Samuel Rogers Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $54k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COUNCIL ON AGING-ORANGE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| BASSET HOUND RESCUE OF SO CALIF | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LA ANIMAL SHELTER | $6,000 |
| Todd Anglin Home for Children | $2,059 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR SERVICES | $2,000 |
| Orange County Parks Foundation | $1,500 |
| American Political Science Associat | $1,200 |
| Region 9 Head Start Association | $1,000 |
| LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $150 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 5 since wound down; 11 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- COCOUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA4× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +80%
- COCOUNCIL OF AGING SO CAL3× · 2020–2023 · $115k
- FOFRIENDS OF LA ANIMAL SHELTER5× · 2018–2023 · $42k
Funded once
- GGGOLDEN GATE BASSET RESCUEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +335%
- PTPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $800 · revenue +68%
- CYCSP YOUTH SHELTERSone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Golden Gate Basset Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds TODD ANGLIN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds International Seafarers Center of LBLA ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE BASSET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds REGION IX HEAD START ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 The James Samuel Rogers 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.