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The Rockwell Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Rockwell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$182kEducation$80kArts & Culture$69kAnimals$24kCommunity Improvement$9kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$35,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE$9,500
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
IMPACT INSTITUTE$4,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY$3,000
THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION NOBLE COUNTY: $4k → 10%PUBLIC RADIO NRP: $20k → 12%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION NOBLE COUNTY: $4k → 10%PUBLIC RADIO NRP: $12k → 12%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE: $10k → 10%PUBLIC RADIO NRP: $12k → 12%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%IMPACT INSTITUTE: $9k → 10%PUBLIC RADIO NRP: $11k → 12%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%IMPACT INSTITUTE: $8k → 10%PUBLIC RADIO NRP: $10k → 12%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%IMPACT INSTITUTE: $7k → 10%PUBLIC RADIO NRP: $10k → 12%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%IMPACT INSTITUTE: $7k → 10%PUBLIC RADIO NRP: $10k → 12%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%IMPACT INSTITUTE: $7k → 10%PUBLIC RADIO NRP: $10k → 12%KENDALLVILLE PARK DEPARTMENT: $6k → 10%CHANNEL 39 PBS: $11k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY: $6k → 10%CHANNEL 39 PBS: $10k → 12%KENDALLVILLE PARK DEPARTMENT: $5k → 10%CHANNEL 39 PBS: $10k → 12%IMPACT INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%CHANNEL 39 PBS: $10k → 12%THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $4k → 10%CHANNEL 39 PBS: $10k → 12%IMPACT INSTITUTE: $4k → 10%FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $5k → 12%KENDALLVILLE PARKS & RECREATION: $4k → 10%FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $5k → 12%KENDALLVILLE PARKS & RECREATION: $4k → 10%KENDALLVILLE PARKS & RECREATION: $4k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE: $4k → 10%KENDALLVILLE PARKS & RECREATION: $4k → 10%KENDALLVILLE PARK DEPARTMENT: $4k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE: $3k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY: $3k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY: $3k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE: $3k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY: $3k → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$492k · 12 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$492k
$2k

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $182k · revenue -55%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $95k
  • C3
    CHANNEL 39 PBS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $51k

Funded once

  • NC
    NOBLE CO CONCERT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHANNEL 39 PBS: $51,000 · OtherCHANNEL 39 PBSIMPACT INSTITUTE: $49,250 · OtherIMPACT INSTITUTEKENDALLVILLE DAY CARE: $31,000 · OtherKENDALLVILLE DAY CAREIndividual grant recipient: $14,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · Other+3 more: $15,000 · Other+3 moreSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $182,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONHUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY INC: $24,000 · AnimalsFORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC: $8,500 · Community Improvement
Other$269,750Environment$182,000Animals$24,000Arts & Culture$10,000Community Improvement$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $182,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY INC: $24,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC: $8,500 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 SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rockwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rockwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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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