· Private foundation
The Rogers Family Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $725,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $852,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $127,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $343k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Pennsylvania State University | $125,000 |
| Soundwaters | $100,000 |
| Stanford Museum And Nature Center | $50,000 |
| Holy Virgin Protection Russian Orthodox Church | $50,000 |
| Noroton Presbyterian Church | $40,000 |
| Waveny Lifecare Network | $30,000 |
| Greens Ledge Lighthouse Preservation | $25,000 |
| The Community Fund Of Darien | $25,000 |
| American Corporate Partners | $25,000 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | $20,000 |
| The Boys' Club of New York | $20,000 |
| Greenwich Hospital | $15,000 |
| Education Reform Now Inc | $12,500 |
| Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut | $10,000 |
| The Boys' Club of New York | $10,000 |
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 +18% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k 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
AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS2× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +44%- TDTHE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +3%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +23%
Funded once
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +8%- BBBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -82%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -79%
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 new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
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…
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 adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
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…
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Macro Minds Foundation 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 56 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.
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE ELM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds AT HOME IN DARIENINC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MACRO MINDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds CTC TEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · 522 Foundation Inc · The Weil Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Alexandra Foundation · Pieter and Yvette Eenkema Van Dijk Foundation · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Darien 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.
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