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AM Roberts 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $669k
- $250k+1 grant · $316k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Watch Hill Conservancy | $316,298 |
| Watch Hill Lighthouse Keepers Association | $217,000 |
| The United Theatre | $200,000 |
| The Watch Hill Chapel | $77,000 |
| Westerly Hospital Foundation | $62,500 |
| Ocean Community YMCA | $62,300 |
| Westerly Ambulance Corps | $50,000 |
| Chorus of Westerly | $20,000 |
| The Colonial Theatre | $15,000 |
| Literacy Volunteers of Washington County | $12,500 |
| Orlando R Smith Trust Babcock-Smith House | $10,000 |
| East Beach Association | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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 +82% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TWTHE WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +144% · 42% of their budget
THE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $638k · revenue +150%- WHWATCH HILL LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOC3× · 2020–2024 · $287k · revenue +82% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCHRIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $50k
- OCOCEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +33%
- TOTown of Westerly Police Departmentone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Our mission is to educate and interpret the maritime history of our coastal community and to advocate for the preservation of our local historic structures. We own and operate the Grays Harbor Lighthouse and own the collections of and…
The Greater Westhampton Chamber of Commerce is organized for the purpose of advancing business relations, improving business, and working towards the success and improvemeent of the general economic and cultural welfare of the Incorporated…
To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
The mission of westerly armory restoration, inc is to restore the historic westerly armory (national register of historic places and a save americas treasures site) for use by its community as a museum and community building.
To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
To encourage the sport of sailing, to stimulate racing, and to increase the knowledge of seamanship.
The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…
The mission of the library is to serve to the community, cultivate knowledge, promote curiosity, and inspire lifelong learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Westerly Ambulance Corps Inc and the most unlike its peers is Literacy Volunteers of Washington County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds One Bay Street Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WATCH HILL LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds The Chorus of Westerly Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Washington County ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Watch Hill Memorial Library and Improvement Society ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds East Beach Association ↗
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: The Ninigret Foundation Inc · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Royce Family Fund Inc · The Peter and Deborah Lamm Foundation R Bradford Malt Et Al Trustees · Lynch Family Foundation · Forrest C & Frances H Lattner Foundation · Chelsea Groton Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Andrew and Carol Parsons Family
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 AM Roberts 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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