· Private foundation
The Rodgers Family 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $368k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TATTER BLUE ARCHIVES INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL | $47,000 |
| BELOIT COLLEGE | $45,000 |
| VERMONTERS FOR A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT INC | $35,000 |
| ALLIANCE 180 INC | $25,000 |
| THE DOE FUND | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| NEW ENERGY NEXUS | $15,000 |
| DARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST | $12,500 |
| VOTE SOLAR | $12,500 |
| UNC-CHAPEL HILL | $11,000 |
| SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $10,000 |
| RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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 +2% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- DTDORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $312k · revenue +38%
BELOIT COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $288k · revenue +6%- VFVermonters For A Clean Environment Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $218k · revenue +18% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- LCLung Cancer Allianceone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue 0%
- AAAMERICAN ART THERAPY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +13%
- GFGO2 For Lung Cancerone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -5%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global 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 34 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 114 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
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.
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- Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vermonters For A Clean Environment Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TATTER BLUE ARCHIVES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Vote Solar ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE180 INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds The Cambridge Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOKS INC ↗
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- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
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- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Lung Cancer Alliance ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CalCef Innovations ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Peckham Family Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Eastern Bank Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Don and Linda Ihde Family Fdn Inc · The Fowler Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc
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 Rodgers Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Smokey House Center — 54% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Zeiterion Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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.
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