· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +178%- WHWATCH HILL LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOC3× · 2020–2024 · $287k · revenue +82% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCHRIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TOTown of Westerly Police Departmentone grant, 2022 · $15k
- OCOCEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +33%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization AM Roberts Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from AM Roberts Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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