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Allan B Roby & Frances M Roby Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.

Environment$927kEducation$193kRecreation & Sports$35kCrime & Legal$32kInternational$22kPhilanthropy$21kArts & Culture$10kCommunity Improvement$9kAnimals$3kOther$672k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEREA COLLEGE$50,000
LYME SCHOOL$25,000
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST$25,000
UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST$25,000
LYME CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$20,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$15,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$10,000
NANTUCKET LAND COUNCIL$5,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$5,000
VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES$5,000
ZIENZELE FOUNDATION$5,000
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL$2,500
MASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION$2,500
UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE$1,000
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
DC
AL
GA
FL

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 37 repeat orgs$639k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
20

Total granted

$1.2M
$594k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+42%

Still filing today

76%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationInternationalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +136%
  • UV
    UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +38%
  • CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • SHELBURNE FARMS
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • WI
    WILDLANDSCAPES INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • FS
    Forest Society of Maine
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +25%

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
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
5
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.

Environment
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
Vermont Trails & Greenways Council

To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.

Environment
8
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
9
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
10
New River Land Trust

To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.

Environment
11
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
12
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Forestry Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bear Hill Conservancy Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Community FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsJewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr16%41%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,521

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

42 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. 42 of the 61 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
32/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHELBURNE FARMS — $250,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMSForest Society of Maine — $100,000 · EnvironmentForest Society of MaineNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $95,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATIONUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC — $80,000 · EnvironmentUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INCCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INCVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $55,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT LAND TRUST INCNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC — $51,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $40,000 · Environment+12 more — $201,250 · Environment+12 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $132,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTOWN OF LYME NH — $126,000 · OtherTOWN OF LYME NHWILDLANDSCAPES INTERNATIONAL — $100,000 · OtherWILDLANDSCAPES INTERNATIONALBEAR HILL CONSERVANCY TRUST — $73,000 · OtherBEAR HILL CONSERVANCY TRUSTSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS — $40,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTSIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACLU FOUNDATION — $32,000 · OtherLYME SCHOOL — $25,000 · Other+21 more — $124,316 · Other+21 moreBEREA COLLEGE — $170,000 · EducationBEREA COLLE…UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE — $11,500 · EducationUPPER VALLE…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $11,000 · EducationUNITED NEGR…+1 more — $500 · EducationAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $31,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $1,000 · Crime & LegalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $15,000 · InternationalOne Days Wages — $5,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $2,000 · InternationalZIENZELE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LYME FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$927,250Other$692,816Education$193,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Crime & Legal$32,000International$22,000Philanthropy$21,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE — $170,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $132,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetForest Society of Maine — $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $95,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBEAR HILL CONSERVANCY TRUST — $73,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC — $51,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZIENZELE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE — $11,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER CONSERVANCY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LYME FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetOne Days Wages — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget350 NEW HAMPSHIRE — $4,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNH School Funding Fairness Project — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope Alliance — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYME HISTORIANS INC — $50 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.

New Hampshire Charita…Davis Conservation Fo…The Vermont Community…The Bailey Charitable…The Stannard & Doroth…Emily Landecker Found…Grace Jones Richardso…Gulf Coast Community …The Nature ConservancyMascoma Bank Foundati…The Lyme Foundation I…Society for the Prote…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH30× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Bailey Charitable Foundation · The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Lyme Foundation Inc · Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests

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 Allan B Roby & Frances M Roby Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Vermont Woodlands Association — 21% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Hubbard Brook Research Foundation — 6% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Allan B Roby & Frances M Roby Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Allan B Roby & Frances M Roby Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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