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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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUFTS COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| TUFTS COLLEGE | $185,000 |
| KARKHANA GLOBAL | $125,000 |
| CASA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| WHITE MOUNTAIN SCIENCE | $30,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FIREWHEEL STEM INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF THE USA | $25,000 |
| CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PROJECT SYNCERE | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER | $2,000 |
| COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +35% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
Trustees of Tufts College6× · 2020–2025 · $790k · revenue +39%- TAThinker Analytix Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $240k · revenue +109%
- FSFirewheel STEM Institute5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- SSSOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INCone grant, 2022 · $140k · revenue -33% · 30% of their budget
- SMST MICHAEL INDIAN SCHOOL (CATHOLIC)one grant, 2020 · $100k
- OBOLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF ST LOUISone grant, 2022 · $100k
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Indian College Fund and the most unlike its peers is Open Science Hardware 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.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 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 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.
24 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. 24 of the 36 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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Thinker Analytix Inc ↗
- Who funds Karkhana Global ↗
- Who funds Firewheel STEM Institute ↗
- Who funds WHITE MOUNTAIN SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SYNCERE ↗
- Who funds CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEYAH ADVANCED RURAL MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Scratch Foundation ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
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: Mac Five Foundation Inc · Trustees of Tufts College · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rogers Family Foundation 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 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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