· Private foundation
Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $281k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $155k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| THACHER SCHOOL INC | $250,000 |
| STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC | $55,000 |
| MAPS | $50,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| CHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT INCORPORATED | $40,000 |
| AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT | $36,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED | $30,000 |
| MONTECITO IDEAS FORUM | $25,000 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| AFRICAN WOMEN RISING | $10,000 |
| CRANE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CALM INC | $10,000 |
| THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% 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
- TTThe Thacher School Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +32%
- CMClaremont McKenna College8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +89%
- WYWilderness Youth Project Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $681k · revenue +359%
Funded once
- SBSanta Barbara Bucket Brigadeone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -45%
- NFNAACP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -73%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +98%
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.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Math for America. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 84 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 The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
- Who funds AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OneSky ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA4GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NAACP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy 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 Tony and Kyra Rogers 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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