· Private foundation
The Rogers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 41 grants below total $5,892,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,286,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $393,500 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $475k
- $250k+4 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UT Health Science Center | $3,000,000 |
| Tyler Junior College | $1,000,000 |
| Hospice of East Texas Foundation | $600,000 |
| Good Shepherd Reformed Episcopal Church | $400,000 |
| Compass School of Texas | $150,000 |
| East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Inc. | $75,000 |
| Timberline Baptist Camp & Conference Center | $50,000 |
| East Texas Crisis Center | $50,000 |
| Sun Valley Music Festival | $50,000 |
| Tyler Museum of Art | $50,000 |
| Momentous Institute | $50,000 |
| St. Paul Children's Foundation | $40,000 |
| Literacy Council of Tyler | $40,000 |
| St. Luke's Wood River Foundation | $40,000 |
| Sun Valley Writers' Conference | $40,000 |
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.
60 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2022, 30 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M 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
- CFCASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC5× · 2017–2022 · $290k · revenue +57%
- ETEAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V3× · 2018–2021 · $275k · revenue +937%
- MCMOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS OF EAST TEXAS INC4× · 2017–2021 · $230k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- TJTyler Junior Collegeone grant, 2018 · $500k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INCone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -18%
- ETEast Texas Symphony Orchestra, Inc and East Texas Symphony Foundationone grant, 2018 · $60k
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.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
Support economic development of greater tyler area.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
School's mission is to help establish basic skills through teaching methods that enhance a child's joy in learning, ability to learn, and interest in learning while fostering the child's self-confidence.
To promote preservation and protection of historic structures
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentoring Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Sun Valley Fire Department. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 104 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 HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TYLER MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KOURAGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds TIMBERLINE BAPTIST CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds PROMISE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CENIKOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds SMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TYLER INC ↗
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: Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · Bob L Herd Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · T B Butler Foundation · Byers Family Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · Julietta Jarvis 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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