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The Rodricks Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rodricks Foundation Inc

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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$750
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$9kArts & Culture$9kEducation$7kHealth$4kEnvironment$3kPublic Benefit$2kAnimals$1kHousing & Shelter$915Other$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50
Median grant
14
States reached
$152k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS$750
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL$500
ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST$250
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$250
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$100
THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES$100
OPERA HOUSE ARTS$100
MEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORP$75
CRS$50
INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE$50
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50
BLUE HILL BACH$50
BAGADUCE MUSIC LENDING LIBRARY$50
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT$50
THE SALVATION ARMY$50
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, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $60 → 12%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%BOY'S TOWN: $27 → 12%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%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

ME
WI
NY
MA
SD
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
DC
MS
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 26 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
27

Total granted

$35k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+17%

Still filing today

85%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339 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
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +66%
  • IH
    ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +226%
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • VO
    VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUND
    one grant, 2023 · $250
  • CI
    COMMENTARY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue +42%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICERSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200 · revenue +45%
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
The National World War Ii Museum Inc

The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…

Arts & Culture
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
6
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
9
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
12
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 66 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
29/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $7,750 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLI…AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL: $1,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COU…+2 more: $150 · InternationalST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL: $1,990 · OtherST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOLTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $1,900 · OtherTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIESYoung America's Foundation: $650 · OtherYoung America's FoundationPROJECT K9 HERO: $600 · OtherPROJECT K9 HEROISLAND NURSING HOME INC: $650 · OtherISLAND NURSING HOME INCMEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS: $575 · OtherMEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS+41 more: $3,962 · Other+41 moreOPERA HOUSE ARTS: $2,450 · Arts & CultureOPERA HOUSE ARTSBLUE HILL BACH: $2,200 · Arts & CultureBLUE HILL BACHThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $550 · Arts & CultureThe Owls Head Tran…IN SERIES INC: $500 · Arts & CultureIN SERIES INCMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $300 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $2,700 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIAT…BAGADUCE MUSIC LENDING LIBRARY: $2,100 · EducationBAGADUCE MUSIC…+2 more: $148 · EducationISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,750 · Human Services+2 more: $102 · Human ServicesPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,726 · Public Benefit
International$9,400Other$10,327Arts & Culture$6,200Education$4,948Environment$3,000Human Services$2,852Public Benefit$1,726

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 budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $7,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC: $3,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $2,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA HOUSE ARTS: $2,450 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE HILL BACH: $2,200 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBAGADUCE MUSIC LENDING LIBRARY: $2,100 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $1,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,726 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND NURSING HOME INC: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS: $575 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC: $225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $87 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY QUEEN OF HEAVEN INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $48 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC: $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $15 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Maine Community Found…The Joyce & Gary Weng…Raymond F and Judith …Hickrill Foundation I…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Maine Community Foundation IncME16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Joyce & Gary Wenglowski Foundation · Raymond F and Judith K McCaskey 2003 Charitable Trust · Hickrill Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Rodricks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rodricks Foundation Inc. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 66 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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