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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $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 |
| LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| ON MY OWN MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| THE GUIDANCE CENTERKIDS TALK CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| CARE HOUSE OAKLAND COUNTY | $15,000 |
| RACQUET UP DETROIT | $15,000 |
| AVALON HEALING CENTER | $13,000 |
| KIDS ON THE GO | $12,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $12,000 |
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 (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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- MSMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +110%
BRILLIANT DETROIT6× · 2019–2024 · $158k · revenue +101%- WOWINGS OVER AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP FDTN3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - CAMP OZANAMone grant, 2019 · $30k
- WQWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +182%
- MVMONTANA VETERANS ASSOC (MI CHAPTER)one grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Map partners with veterans and people who have disabilities in support of their self-directed transformation to self-sufficiency.
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,…
The children's center's mission is to help children and families shape their own futures.
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…
The purpose of the organization is to provide child welfare and supporting services to children, families, and individuals working and living in michigan.
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.
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…
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…
Social welfare and issue advocacy
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…
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 17 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 65 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 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 ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds VETS RETURNING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
- Who funds ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH OAKLAND SCAMP FUNDING CORP ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- 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 HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN OPERATION FREEDOM OUTDOORS ↗
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: 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
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 Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable 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.
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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