· Private foundation
The John a Rodger Jr 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k338 grants · $453k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONSOUTHSIDE HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| GNYC BSA (BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA) | $11,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL | $11,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE | $5,000 |
| EXCHANGE AMBULANCE CORPORATION OF THE ISLIPS | $5,000 |
| FORWARD EDGE INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NYC FIRE DEPARTMENT BURN UNIT | $5,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL OF LONG ISLAND (PSOLI) | $3,250 |
| SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| SIDDHAYATAN TIRTH | $3,000 |
| GREAT SOUTH BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF METRO NEW YORK | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
384 repeat relationships — 329 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 7 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, 97% 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
CHARITY GLOBAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +36%- FEFORWARD EDGE INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +42%
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +233%
Funded once
- SHSOUTHSIDE HOSPITALNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- PFPARKS FOUNDATION OF ISLIP TOWN INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -48%
- SSSOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sensory Beans Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
310 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. 310 of the 424 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD EDGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Great South Bay Audubon Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE AMBULANCE CORP OF THE ISLIPS ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ↗
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- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
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- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
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- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
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- Who funds Keepers of the Wild ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seckinger Foundation Corporation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Bradford Family Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Bernard Weinberg Foundation
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 John a Rodger Jr Foundation Inc 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.