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Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$227k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 29
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$77k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving28$227k4%
FY202428$252k4%
FY202328$291k4%
FY202227$287k30%
FY202128$320k7%
FY202029$322kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$670kAnimals$175kInternational$165kHuman Services$160kEducation$105kRecreation & Sports$105kArts & Culture$59kYouth Development$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($556k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMount Sinai Medical Center Foundation: $300,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOptimist International Foundation: $115,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $105,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute for Shipboard Education: $50,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBay Oaks Historic Retirement Residence Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWomen of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPaws 4 Liberty Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMiami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Victory Center Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMiami Country Day School Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOic of South Florida Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCoast Guard Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe V Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLyford Cay Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBattier Take Charge Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

The Garner FoundationFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Garner Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc

How much does Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc give?
Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $227,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Animals (10%), International (10%).
Who are Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation ($300k), Optimist International Foundation ($115k), Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc ($105k).
Does Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Garner Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Batchelor Foundation Inc.
Where is Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc based?
Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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