· Public charity
Carole Robertson Center for Learning
The Carole Robertson Center For Learning educates, enriches, and empowers children and families through comprehensive child and family development programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $6,464,210 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,911,478 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $447,268 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $5.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan Family Services | $4,161,630 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | $635,841 |
| House Of Kidds Childcare | $315,796 |
| Weathersby Wonder World Inc | $233,707 |
| Positive Attitudes Working Inc | $184,315 |
| Serving All Families Everywhere 2 | $151,165 |
| Scribbles Daycare | $102,433 |
| Creative Development Child Care Inc | $85,788 |
| Sunrise Day Care Inc | $85,287 |
| Arco Iris Home Daycare LLC | $82,099 |
| Little Explorers Daycare | $75,556 |
| Little Space Daycare Corporation | $74,298 |
| TJ's Heavenly Angels Academy | $62,840 |
| Lorissa Learning Lab LLC | $59,786 |
| Child's World Academic Inc | $42,660 |
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 (FY23–25, $15.2M) 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.
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 -4% since the first grant, against -94% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k 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
- MFMetropolitan Family Services4× · 2022–2025 · $13M · revenue +51%
- ENERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +56%
- CCCHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY3× · 2022–2024 · $203k · revenue +34% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- APALBANY PARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue -94%
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.
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.
We believe every child deserves the opportunity to develop into a healthy, contributing citizen. we engage the community and provide a leading voice to improve the accessibility, affordability and quality of child care.
To provide day care to a diverse community in a loving, caring and supportive educational environment focused on the socio-emotional development of children ages 2 - 5.
Educational child care center (ec3) provides developmentally appropriate child care in a nurturing environment that promotes growth of the whole child while responding to the needs of the family.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
Childcare
Public service for daycare
Our mission is to provide quality child care in a warm and nurturing atmosphere. we offer developmentally appropriate activities in small and large group settings designed to enhance the social, emotional, intellectual, language, and…
The green byrne child care center services approximately 85 children ranging from 6 weeks to 6 years of age. teaching strategies for infants, toddlers and preschoolers align with the pennsylvania early learning standards and focus on…
Creative beginnings child development center is dedicated to providing high quality early childhood care and education by creating a safe, nurturing environment in which children develop a positive self image, a love of learning,…
A non-profit dedicated to providing a safe and clean daycare for children from infant aged to elementary aged level
Young Child Assiciates mission is to keep children safe and to support families in the daily care and guidance of their children. Our programs are designed to promote social, academic and personal growth using large and small group…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Child Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Channings Childcare Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 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 Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE ATTITUDE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER ROCK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY PARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Carole Robertson Center for Learning 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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