· Private foundation
The Katherine Estes Rogers 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST DECENTS | $5,500 |
| WALK WITH SALLY | $5,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION SANTA BARBARA | $5,000 |
| STUPID CANCER INC | $5,000 |
| THE MERCY FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| REAL LIFE SKILLS INC | $4,500 |
| VIKING CHARITIES INC | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| YOUTH EDUCATION SPORTS SCHOLARS YESS | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $48k) 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 its grants land in higher-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.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSTUPID CANCER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue -6%
- FDFIRST DESCENTS7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +148%
- RLREAL LIFE SKILLS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue -26%
Funded once
- OHOSANA HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $746 · revenue +40%
- CCaringBridgeone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue -1%
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.
Cancer survivors to go on a healing retreat
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Religious Humanitarian
Our mission is to connect, support, and educate individuals in the community who are facing cancer and other diseases by focusing on strategies that help to rebuild the body, renew the soul, and refresh the spirit through god's word.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Cancer survivor support
The organization provides free, comprehensive second opinions to adults in California diagnosed with cancer.
Helping women with cancer
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Katherine Estes Rogers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Katherine Estes Rogers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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