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Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable 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.

$445k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$727kYouth Development$410kHealth$358kEducation$280kScience & Tech$180kCivil Rights$113kRecreation & Sports$105kCrime & Legal$103kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $330k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$30,000
MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER$30,000
METRO DETROIT YOUTH CLUBS$30,000
BRILIANT DETROIT$27,500
MICHIGAN FREEDOM CENTER$22,000
ASHES TO GLORY FOUNDATION$20,000
SINGLE MOMM$17,500
CARE HOUSE OAKLAND COUNTY$15,000
ON MY OWN MICHIGAN$15,000
RACQUET UP DETROIT$15,000
THE GUIDANCE CENTERKIDS TALK CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$15,000
LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER$15,000
AVALON HEALING CENTER$13,000
KIDS ON THE GO$12,500
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$12,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $493k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%SINGLE MOMM: $24k → 10%KIDS ON THE GO: $13k → 10%CHILDREN'S LITERARY NETWORK: $8k → 14%SINGLE MOMM: $19k → 10%KIDS ON THE GO: $13k → 10%MI WORK MATTERS: $5k → 21%SINGLE MOMM: $18k → 10%MI WORK MATTERS: $5k → 21%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $18k → 5%SINGLE MOMM: $18k → 10%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $15k → 5%SAMARITAS: $5k → 21%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 5%GIANNA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%FOCUS HOPE: $20k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $15k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $13k → 21%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $20k → 8%TEAM GUTS INC: $8k → 8%TEAM GUTS INC: $8k → 8%TEAM GUTS INC: $8k → 8%TEAM GUTS INC: $5k → 8%MILITARY FAMILIES UNITED OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 8%DUTTON FARM: $15k → 8%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $15k → 8%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $15k → 8%ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $10k → 21%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $15k → 8%ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $10k → 21%ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $10k → 21%ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $10k → 21%ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $10k → 21%ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $10k → 21%JUDSON CENTER INC: $30k → 8%JUDSON CENTER INC: $30k → 8%JUDSON CENTER INC: $15k → 8%MICHIGAN ARMED FORCES HOSPITALITY CENTER: $15k → 8%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 39 repeat orgs$316k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
19

Total granted

$2.2M
$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+47%

Still filing today

74%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MS
    MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +110%
  • BRILLIANT DETROIT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $158k · revenue +101%
  • WO
    WINGS OVER AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP FDTN
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • WQ
    WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +168%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - CAMP OZANAM
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • MV
    MONTANA VETERANS ASSOC (MI CHAPTER)
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Michigan Ability Partners

Map partners with veterans and people who have disabilities in support of their self-directed transformation to self-sufficiency.

Human Services
2
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation

The mission of desc is to cultivate local workforce talent to align with the needs of the business community through partnerships with key workforce agencies, faith- and community- based organizations, education and training institutions,…

Employment
3
Childrens Center of Wayne County Inc

The children's center's mission is to help children and families shape their own futures.

Human Services
4
Michigan Psychiatric Society

Mission is to represent the interests and professional needs of psychiatric physicians in michigan while striving to ensure quality care for people with mental disorders and their families through promotion of education, research and…

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5
Fostering Solutions

The purpose of the organization is to provide child welfare and supporting services to children, families, and individuals working and living in michigan.

Human Services
6
Association for Children's Mental Health

To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.

Health
7
Matrix Human Services

Inspired by its heritage since 1906, matrix human services advocates for and services the most vulnerable in the metropolitan detroit community and empowers individiuals and families to enhance the quality of their lives and achieve self…

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8
Michigan Casa Inc

Michigan casa, inc. is dedicated to changing the lives of abused and neglected children by advocating for their best interests through establishing, supporting, and expanding quality casa programs throughout the state of michigan to ensure…

Civil Rights
9
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
10
Covenant House Michigan

Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…

Human Services
11
Wolverine Human Services

Wolverine human services (whs) is a social service agency providing safety, sustenance, nurturing and theraputic intervention to children. whs programs focus on adolescents suffering from social injustices of abuse and neglect and those…

Human Services
12
Michigan Veterans Foundations Inc

Provides at risk, and homeless veterans with temporary housing and supportive services, e.g., medical, vocational, psychological, and educational training to regain or improve their status in society.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METRO DETROIT YOUTH CLUBS: $220,000 · OtherMETRO DETROIT YOUTH CLUBSFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $130,000 · OtherFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSMICHIGAN FREEDOM CENTER: $65,000 · OtherMICHIGAN FREEDOM CENTERDOWNTOWN BOXING YOUTH LEAGUE: $65,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN BOXING YOUTH LEAGUEST VINCENT DE PAUL: $47,000 · OtherCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION - MICHIGAN CHAPTER: $37,500 · OtherCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $55,000 · OtherVETS RETURNING HOME INC: $52,500 · Other+23 more: $367,000 · Other+23 moreSINGLE MOMM: $77,500 · Human ServicesSINGLE MOMMJUDSON CENTER INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesJUDSON CENTER INCST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT & SARAH FISH…FOCUSHOPE: $48,000 · Human ServicesFOCUSHOPELIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesLIVING & LEARNING ENRIC…BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesBLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS …TEAM GUTS INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesTEAM GUTS INCKIDS ON THE GO: $25,000 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN OPERATION FREEDOM OUTDOORS: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $20,000 · Human Services+8 more: $72,500 · Human Services+8 moreMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER: $180,000 · EducationMICHIGAN SCIEN…WINGS OVER AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP FDTN: $150,000 · EducationWINGS OVER AME…ASHES TO GLORY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthASHES TO G…ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN: $45,000 · HealthON MY OWN …WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthWARRIORS &…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $28,500 · HealthSEMPER FI …DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $22,500 · HealthDETROIT IN…AVALON HEALING CENTER: $13,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthBRILLIANT DETROIT: $157,500 · Youth DevelopmentRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTH OAKLAND SCAMP FUNDING CORP: $42,500 · Recreation & SportsRACQUET UP DETROIT: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterBEDS 4 KIDS: $29,000 · Housing & ShelterHumble Design Inc: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,039,000Human Services$513,000Education$330,000Health$244,000Youth Development$157,500Recreation & Sports$127,500Housing & Shelter$109,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER: $180,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $157,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetWINGS OVER AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP FDTN: $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetASHES TO GLORY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSINGLE MOMM: $77,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $60,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $55,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVETS RETURNING HOME INC: $52,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetFOCUSHOPE: $48,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN: $45,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC: $42,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetNORTH OAKLAND SCAMP FUNDING CORP: $42,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBEDS 4 KIDS: $29,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $28,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM GUTS INC: $27,500 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHWEST WAYNE COUNTY: $27,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS ON THE GO: $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $21,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN OPERATION FREEDOM OUTDOORS: $20,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetHAVEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN ARMED FORCES HOSPITALITY CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetDUTTON FARM: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAVALON HEALING CENTER: $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND 26 INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMethodist Children's Home Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMI HEROES HAVEN: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMI WORK MATTERS: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS LITERACY NETWORK: $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGIANNA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMILITARY FAMILIES UNITED - MICHIGAN: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSAMARITAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OVER AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP FDTN ↗
  • Who funds ASHES TO GLORY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SINGLE MOMM ↗
  • Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VETS RETURNING HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
  • Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH OAKLAND SCAMP FUNDING CORP ↗
  • Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds BEDS 4 KIDS ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds TEAM GUTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF NORTHWEST WAYNE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ON THE GO ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
  • Who funds FALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND ↗
  • Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN OPERATION FREEDOM OUTDOORS ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…DTE Energy FoundationCanton Community Foun…Michigan Health Endow…Eagles for ChildrenThe Carls FoundationChildren's Hospital o…The Barton Malow Foun…Consumers Energy Foun…Molinello Family Foun…Ethel and James Flinn…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI51.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Eagles for Children · The Carls Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Molinello Family Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable Foundation 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.

    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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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