· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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 scan foundation envisions a society where all of us can age well with purpose. we pursue this vision by igniting bold and equitable changes in how older adults age in both home and community.
The Ocean Genome Atlas Project OGAP aims to collect, classify, sequence and map the genomic information of organisms representing at least 80 of the extant marine species worldwide. Deploying a fleet of advanced but cost effective research…
Friends of Orange County's Homeless Pets (FOCHP) is a licensed 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to make homeless and unwanted pets more adoptable and provide them the opportunity to find lifelong families. This mission…
The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…
Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…
To empower transformative change in the immigration system so the most vulnerable immigrants and refugees in Orange County, impacted by detention and deportation, are afforded legal representation, due process rights, and services for…
Onelegacy saves and heals lives through organ, eye and tissue donation, comforts the families we serve, and inspires our communities to donate life.
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.
See schedule othe mission of the institute on aging is to enhance the quality of life for adults as they age by enabling them to maintain their health, well being, independence and participation in the community. ioa fulfills this mission…
Octane connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth in orange county. our members represent orange county technology executive leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, academicians, and…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 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 Foundation for Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds International Seafarers Center of LBLA ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James Samuel Rogers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James Samuel Rogers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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