· Private foundation
Thomas a Rodgers Jr Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $608k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $795k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC | $100,000 |
| SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $90,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWPORT COUNTY INC | $85,000 |
| NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC | $75,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST HEALTH | $74,925 |
| HOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $70,000 |
| THOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FALL RIVER | $50,000 |
| FALL RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| ST PHILOMENA SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| ARGOSY CHARTER SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| YEAR UP INC | $40,000 |
| TASHIRAT FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +48%- NPNATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC6× · 2019–2024 · $593k · revenue +116%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $550k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- PAPORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $50k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FALL RIVERone grant, 2023 · $50k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB METRO SOUTHone grant, 2020 · $40k
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.
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To engage people of all ages in the joy of sailing, offering access to all nantucket's youth, and teaching every participant in our programs enduring life and leadership skills, with a deep respect for the marine environment.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Fall River Inc and the most unlike its peers is Police Athletic League of Fall River 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 80 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 SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Bristol Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds TASHIRAT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds Fall River Historical Society ↗
- Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN MA ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS TO GIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Visiting Nurse Services of Newport and Bristol Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE ↗
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: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Fall River Women's Union
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 Thomas a Rodgers Jr 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.
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc — 84% of income from government
- Fall River Deaconess Home — 78% of income from government
- Fall River Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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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