· Private foundation
The Rogers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $396k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $1,192,496 |
| THE BEVERLY THEATER | $842,054 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $545,510 |
| CORE ACADEMY | $427,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $114,272 |
| Individual grant recipient | $101,789 |
| DESERT RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $66,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $63,889 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO | $39,421 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $33,500 |
| EXPLORICA | $32,750 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $26,508 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-DAVIS | $21,865 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 12 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +33%- TBTHE BEVERLY THEATER LLC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +433% · 100% of their budget
- TSThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts4× · 2020–2023 · $1000k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- NSNV SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $125k
- NANEVADA ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +63%
- NSNEVADA SCHOOL OF THE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $71k · revenue +140%
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.
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.
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…
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The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
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How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 98 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BEVERLY THEATER LLC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NEVADA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEVADA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rogers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rogers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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