How much does Carole Robertson Center for Learning give?

Carole Robertson Center for Learning reported 18 itemized grants totaling $6,464,210, out of $6,911,478 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Carole Robertson Center for Learning fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (81%), Education (12%), Youth Development (4%).

Who are Carole Robertson Center for Learning's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Metropolitan Family Services ($13M), Erie Neighborhood House ($1.9M), House Of Kidds Childcare ($1.0M).

Does Carole Robertson Center for Learning fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Carole Robertson Center for Learning?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Carole Robertson Center for Learning based?

Carole Robertson Center for Learning is based in IL.

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Illinois · 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.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Itemized grants FY2025: 21
Organizations funded FY2024: 5%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $6.5M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $85,287
Largest grant, FY2025: $4,161,630
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 21; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $27M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Carole Robertson Center for Learning funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	18	$6.5M	11%
FY2024	21	$6.2M	5%
FY2023	20	$7.3M	100%
FY2021	1	$35k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$16MEducation$2.5MYouth Development$711kInternational$454kArts & Culture$234k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Metropolitan Family Services	$13,075,963	4	4%
Erie Neighborhood House	$1,938,962	4	6%
House Of Kidds Childcare	$1,034,850	3	n/a
Positive Attitude Youth Center Inc	$556,124	4	38%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc	$453,666	4	0%
Scribbles Daycare	$293,895	3	n/a
Sunrise Child Care Inc	$248,566	4	23%
Creative Child Care Inc	$243,029	4	1%
Weathersby Wonder World Inc	$233,707	1	n/a
Little Explorers Daycare	$206,143	4	n/a

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All grantees of Carole Robertson Center for Learning by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Metropolitan Family Services	$13,075,963	4	4%
Erie Neighborhood House	$1,938,962	4	6%
House Of Kidds Childcare	$1,034,850	3	n/a
Positive Attitude Youth Center Inc	$556,124	4	38%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc	$453,666	4	0%
Scribbles Daycare	$293,895	3	n/a
Sunrise Child Care Inc	$248,566	4	23%
Creative Child Care Inc	$243,029	4	1%
Weathersby Wonder World Inc	$233,707	1	n/a
Little Explorers Daycare	$206,143	4	n/a
Channings Childcare Academy	$203,305	3	48%
TJ's Heavenly Angels Academy	$200,652	3	n/a
Lorissa Learning Lab LLC	$192,494	4	n/a
Little Space Daycare Corporation	$189,933	3	n/a
Greater Rock Development Corporation	$154,675	3	13%
Child's World Academic Inc	$151,593	4	n/a
4 Crosses Academy Of Learning LTD	$142,603	3	n/a
Arco Iris Home Daycare LLC	$111,459	2	n/a
Jumpstart for Young Children Inc	$110,300	4	0%
Angelica Scholars Academy	$82,426	2	n/a
Pearline Minto - Smiling Faces Home Daycare	$56,728	2	n/a
Kids First Home Day Care Inc	$54,653	2	n/a
MisPequenos Exploradores LLC Patricia Oros	$38,367	1	n/a
Albany Park Community Center Inc	$35,000	2	1%

Carole Robertson Center for Learning supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA0.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Carole Robertson Center for Learning

How much does Carole Robertson Center for Learning give?: Carole Robertson Center for Learning reported 18 itemized grants totaling $6,464,210, out of $6,911,478 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Carole Robertson Center for Learning fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (81%), Education (12%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Carole Robertson Center for Learning's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Metropolitan Family Services ($13M), Erie Neighborhood House ($1.9M), House Of Kidds Childcare ($1.0M).
Does Carole Robertson Center for Learning fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carole Robertson Center for Learning?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Carole Robertson Center for Learning based?: Carole Robertson Center for Learning is based in IL.