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The Rogovy Foundation

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.

$249k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MPublic Benefit$390kEnvironment$220kCrime & Legal$35kInternational$34kEducation$25kAnimals$25kCivil Rights$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRO PUBLICA INC$35,000
FILM MAKERS COLLABORATIVE INCORPORATED$25,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$25,000
FRIENDS OF BONOBOS$25,000
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC$25,000
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION$25,000
KINDLING GROUP NFP$20,000
REDFORD CENTER INC$15,000
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION$15,000
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION$15,000
CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGT$10,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$10,000
RATTAPALLAX INCORPORATED$3,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
KY
VA
NM
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 22 repeat orgs$629k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
33

Total granted

$1.8M
$551k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+6%

Still filing today

95%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • PRO PUBLICA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +48%
  • IF
    INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $118k · revenue +8%
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • REWILDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue +101%
  • AP
    AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • GP
    Greater Philadelphia Film Office
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Field of Vision Inc

Field of Vision is a filmmaker and artist driven organization that commissions, creates and supports original nonfiction films about developing and ongoing stories around the globe. Field of Vision supports work that uses innovative and…

Arts & Culture
2
WorkingFilms Inc

Recognizing the power of film to inspire, Working Films positions documentaries to increase civic engagement and shift culture at the local, state, and national level.

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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4
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
5
Reel Earth Films

Reel Earth Films promotes wildlife conservation by creating films that nurture the human connection to nature, spread awareness about life-threatening challenges facing species worldwide, and advance environmental activism and research.

Arts & Culture
6
Moving Picture Institute

The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.

Arts & Culture
7
Newport Film Inc

Newport film inspires, educates, and entertains by presenting current and impactful documentaries that build community and propel change.

Arts & Culture
8
Authentic Arc Inc

Authentic arc's mission includes supporting the independent documentary film community and supporting and promoting diversity in the independent documentary film community. authentic arc helps fund unique films that make a meaningful…

Arts & Culture
9
Cabin Creek Center for Work & Environmental Studies Inc

Documentary films

Arts & Culture
10
National Film Preservation Foundation

The NFPF is a nonprofit organization established in the District of Columbia resulting from an Act of Congress in order to preserve and make publicly accessible our nations film heritage. The NFPF works with archives to preserve American…

Arts & Culture
11
Docs in Progress Inc

Docs in progress is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which gives individuals the tools to tell stories through documentary film to educate, inspire, and transform the way people view their world.

Arts & Culture
12
Kartemquin Educational Films

Kartemquin's mission is to empower the creation of stories that foster a more engaged and just society -- turning toward and grappling with the most critical issues of our time. we do this by producing documentaries on a wide range of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Documentary Educational Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Btl Project. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,507

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.

04the grantee network

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 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/57
Grantees still filing
35/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $337,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INCPRO PUBLICA INC — $195,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $117,500 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INCWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCFrom The Heart Productions — $100,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart ProductionsTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCFILM INDEPENDENT — $79,415 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more — $378,032 · Arts & Culture+18 moreThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc — $250,000 · OtherThe Center for Investigat…SALT LAKE CITY FILM CENTER AND ARTISTS COLLABORATI — $130,000 · OtherSALT LAKE CITY FILM CENTE…JIGSAW EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIONS INC — $25,000 · OtherNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $25,000 · OtherPROP 8 FILMS — $25,000 · OtherWOMEN RISING PRODUCTIONS — $20,000 · Other+16 more — $91,000 · Other+16 moreREWILD — $120,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BONOBOS — $25,000 · AnimalsCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC — $52,500 · Public BenefitOPENSECRETS — $37,500 · Public BenefitGreater Philadelphia Film Office — $25,000 · Public BenefitTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — $15,000 · Public BenefitPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitREDFORD CENTER INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentLEGASEAS INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentDOC SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $24,100 · PhilanthropyMARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$1,457,447Other$566,000Animals$145,000Public Benefit$140,000Environment$75,000Philanthropy$49,100Crime & Legal$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $337,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc — $250,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $195,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetREWILD — $120,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $117,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions — $100,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $79,415 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC — $52,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KINDLING GROUP — $45,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetOPENSECRETS — $37,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND — $35,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA — $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Film Office — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCITY LORE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMirabel Pictures — $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEGASEAS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BONOBOS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDOC SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $24,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN RISING PRODUCTIONS — $20,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCalifornia Prison Focus — $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetThe Third Way Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC — $10,532 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMELANDS RESEARCH GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Mexico Film Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE RICKS OBEROI FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRATTAPALLAX INCORPORATED — $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRAZOM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Ford FoundationPerspective Media Ini…Jewish Communal FundThe San Francisco Fou…Catapult Film FundChicken & Egg Films I…Harnisch Family Found…Sundance InstituteTides FoundationImpactassetsincWellspring Philanthro…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Catapult Film Fund · Chicken & Egg Films Inc · Harnisch Family Foundation · Sundance Institute · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Rogovy 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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