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The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family Foundation at a glance

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The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family 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.

$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$425kHealth$148kEducation$78kPhilanthropy$48kHuman Services$44kYouth Development$34kEnvironment$30kRecreation & Sports$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALUES IN ACTION$15,000
GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC$15,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON EDUCATION FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS$15,000
MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART$15,000
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
AKRON URBAN LEAGUE$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON MYERS SCHOOL OF ART$7,000
AKRON SOUL TRAIN$6,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEAST OHIO$5,500
SUMMIT ART SPACE$5,000
ARTS NOW$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BARD GRADUATE CENTER$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$4,640
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL: $1k → 14%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 13%AKRON URBAN LEAGUE: $13k → 13%AKRON URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 13%AKRON URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 13%AKRON URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 13%BUILDING FOR TOMORROW: $100 → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $15k → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $8k → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CO
MO
NM
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 28% of The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$758k · 65 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

65 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
37

Total granted

$758k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+27%

Still filing today

66%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AA
    AKRON ART MUSEUM
    6× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +35%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO
    5× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +41%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL ON EDUCATION FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS
    3× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AC
    AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +66%
  • FI
    FRONT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION COMPANY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CV
    CUYAHOGA VALLEY COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -100%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
2
Westmoreland Museum of American Art

The westmoreland museum of american art offers a place to share compelling and meaningful cultural experiences that open the door to new ideas, perspectives, and possibilities.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
4
Greater Columbus Arts Council

Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.

Arts & Culture
5
Dublin Arts Council

Engage the community, cultivate creativity and foster life-long learning through the arts.

Arts & Culture
6
The Toledo Museum of Art

For 124 years, the toledo museum of art has offered free admission to one of the world's great art collections housed in its greek revival main building and the glass pavilion. the museum has an extensive education program, offering…

Arts & Culture
7
Cincinnati Museum Association

Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.

Arts & Culture
8
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
9
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
10
Cleveland Museum of Natural History

To inspire, through science and education, a passion for nature, the protection of natural diversity, the fostering of health, and leadership to a sustainable future.

Arts & Culture
11
Akron Zoological Park

We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.

Animals
12
Akron Parks Collaborative

To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spaces; the most unlike its peers is The International Museum of Dinnerware Design Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 110 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/73
Grantees still filing
55/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY: $80,000 · Arts & CultureFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANYAKRON ART MUSEUM: $79,550 · Arts & CultureAKRON ART MUSEUMNATIONAL COUNCIL ON EDUCATION FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COUNCIL ON EDUCATION FOR THE CER…CFILE FOUNDATION co GARTH R CLARK: $23,000 · Arts & CultureCFILE FOUNDATION co GARTH R CLARKSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS: $19,500 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANSAKRON SOUL TRAIN: $14,000 · Arts & CultureARTSNOW: $11,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $41,030 · Arts & Culture+17 moreAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $39,000 · OtherAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $17,084 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WESTERN R…AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $16,000 · OtherAKRON CIVIC THEATREUNIVERSITY OF AKRON MYERS SCHOOL OF ART: $15,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF AKRON MYERS SCHOOL O…VALUES IN ACTION: $15,500 · OtherVALUES IN ACTIONIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART: $15,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF CERAMIC ARTJOHN EATON HOME AND SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherFRONT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION COMPANY: $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $13,000 · Other+45 more: $95,300 · Other+45 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $69,365 · HealthPLANNED PA…AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthAKRON CHIL…SOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $3,100 · Health+1 more: $400 · HealthAKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesAKRON COM…GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $25,500 · Human ServicesGRACE HOU…+3 more: $3,100 · Human ServicesMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $11,300 · EducationWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationCHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,650 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Education+3 more: $3,000 · EducationTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $12,500 · PhilanthropyAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $13,333 · EnvironmentKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $8,700 · EnvironmentCUYAHOGA VALLEY COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $8,333 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $2,000 · Environment+3 more: $1,600 · Environment
Arts & Culture$318,080Other$261,484Health$82,865Human Services$71,100Education$47,450Philanthropy$45,500Environment$37,966

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY: $80,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAKRON ART MUSEUM: $79,550 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $69,365 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON EDUCATION FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS: $50,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $25,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCFILE FOUNDATION co GARTH R CLARK: $23,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS: $19,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $17,084 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON SOUL TRAIN: $14,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $13,333 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $11,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTSNOW: $11,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $8,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $8,333 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSUMMIT ARTSPACE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER: $7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmigos de las Americas: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $5,180 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC: $3,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE: $2,350 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $1,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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 FRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON EDUCATION FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS ↗
  • Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
  • Who funds CFILE FOUNDATION co GARTH R CLARK ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AKRON SOUL TRAIN ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTSNOW ↗
  • Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ARTSPACE ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Amigos de las Americas ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗

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.

Akron Community Found…Gar FoundationLehner Family Foundat…Sisler McFawn Foundat…Mary S & David C Corb…The Welty Family Foun…Burton D Morgan Found…The Patricia & J Harv…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…Synthomer Foundation …The Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…
Akron Community FoundationOH55.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Patricia & J Harvey Graves Family Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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