· Private foundation
The Rogers 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUKE 14 MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $31,450 |
| HC EXCELL | $14,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| MORRISTOWN HAMBLEN HOSP FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MORRISTOWN | $3,750 |
| ROTARY AM FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION | $2,700 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| HOPE & THRIVE ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| GIRLS INC | $2,500 |
| RIDIN' HIGH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $1,250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +36% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 4 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- HRHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue +115%
- CICATO INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +70%
- HHHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC5× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KY-GATTON BUS & ECONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY-ARTS&SCIENCEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- WWWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
A liberal arts college founded in 1849 and associated with the united methodist church, providing quality education for all students in an atomosphere that promotes intellectual pursuit, spiritual growth and personal responsibility.
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
Educate children in a christ like manner
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic
Christian fellowship for college students
Crossroads Christian Academy partners with parents to provide a Christ-Centered, college preparatory education where students are allowed to further develop their God-given talents and virtues and become college-worthy character witnesses…
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Theatre Guild 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 50 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 20% 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.
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 87 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 HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Luke 14 Ministries ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MORRISTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Stepping Out Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOSPICE OF THE LAKEWAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TENNINC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWAY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POLLY BOYD SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Toccoa Falls College 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: East Tennessee Foundation · Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation · Filmtech Foundation Inc · Wallace Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Eastman Credit Union · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Fountainrx Foundation Inc · The Columbus Phipps Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · The Clayton Homes 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 Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.