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Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation

The purpose of the organization is to perpetuate the legacy of will rogers through the works of three programs, brave beginnings, the will rogers institute and the pioneers assistance fund.

$1.0M
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

55% of Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Southern California, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $661k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

28
’17
35
’18
24
’19
47
’20
5
’21
9
’22
12
’23
10
’24
7
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$3.9MEducation$2.4MHuman Services$110kPhilanthropy$85kEnvironment$43kOther$1.7M
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $660,755 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,031,213 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $370,458 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $272k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $389k
$45,241
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIV OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$180,000
SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$59,000
NEW YORK UNIV SCHOOL OF MED$50,000
CEDARS-SINAI$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - SW MEDICAL CTR$50,000
ST AGNES FOUNDATION INC$47,374
PIH HEALTH FOUNDATION$45,241
SSM CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN$44,805
SAN ANTONIO HOSPITAL FDN$42,585
CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION$36,750
RESPIRTORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION$25,000
BURKE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL$20,000
FORT SANDERS FDN PATRICIA NEAL REHAB CTR$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $57k → 14%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $41k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK: $12k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 24 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
88

Total granted

$3.0M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+46%

Still filing today

88%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NY
    New York University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +76%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $390k · revenue +52%
  • CH
    Covenant Health Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $208k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION NORTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $93k · revenue +102%
  • TS
    THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $91k · revenue +17%
  • LC
    LUBBOCK COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2017 · $75k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
2
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
St Peter's Hospital

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. peter's hospital is a member of st. peter's health partners and…

Health
4
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
6
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
8
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
11
Seton Health System Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. founded in community-based legacies of compassionate healing, we…

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12
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%51%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/123
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,442

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.

04the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/102
Grantees still filing
83/102
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $390,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERCovenant Health Foundation — $207,692 · HealthThe Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital — $200,000 · Health+74 more — $3,116,408 · Health+74 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,870,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANew York University — $400,000 · EducationNew York University+4 more — $179,169 · Education+4 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $400,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXA…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $190,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFO…MERCY FOUNDATION NORTH — $92,768 · OtherMERCY FOUNDATION NORTHLUBBOCK COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT — $75,000 · OtherNORTON HOSP INC — $70,000 · OtherRESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Other+27 more — $784,598 · Other+27 moreTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC — $97,500 · Human ServicesLOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesBozeman Deaconess Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyKALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $12,644 · PhilanthropyAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $11,874 · PhilanthropyWill Rogers Memorial Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWILL ROGERS RANCH FOUNDATION — $43,037 · Environment
Health$3,914,100Education$2,449,169Other$1,672,366Human Services$109,500Philanthropy$84,518Environment$43,037

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,870,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $400,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $390,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant Health Foundation — $207,692 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetThe Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital — $200,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY MEDICAL CENTER — $118,737 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH — $116,295 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCLEOD HEALTH — $107,871 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION — $105,936 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC — $97,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION NORTH — $92,768 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $90,600 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetDCH Foundation Inc — $77,038 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation — $73,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $73,400 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $71,879 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPresbyterian Healthcare Foundation — $69,746 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL — $69,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEl Paso Childrens Hospital Foundation — $67,790 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSan Antonio Hospital Foundation Inc — $64,585 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHI HEALTH FOUNDATION — $62,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc — $61,675 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $60,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate — $57,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF Southeast Texas — $52,879 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc — $50,943 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation — $50,650 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBozeman Deaconess Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI — $47,749 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST AGNES FOUNDATION INC — $47,374 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $46,196 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCATAWBA MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $45,594 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH — $45,319 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIH Health Foundation — $45,241 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT GULFPORT FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHarris County Hospital District Foundation — $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $44,805 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILL ROGERS RANCH FOUNDATION — $43,037 over 3y, 65% of budgetASHLAND HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $41,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Henry Hospital Inc — $41,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PETER'S FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWEST IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $41,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Cancer Socie…Child's PlayAmerican Heart Associ…Joy In Childhood Foun…Gamers Outreach Found…Cystic Fibrosis Found…Public Health Institu…National Breast Cance…The Children's Oncolo…The Children's Hospit…Encourage Kids Founda…Driven Brands Charita…
American Cancer Society IncGA55.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Child's Play · American Heart Association Inc · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Gamers Outreach Foundation Inc · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Public Health Institute · National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Encourage Kids Foundation · Driven Brands Charitable 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 Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bridgeport Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • South Shore Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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