· Private foundation
Charles and Marie Robertson 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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE INSTITUTE FOR WORLD POLITICS | $200,000 |
| WASHINGTON LATIN PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $125,000 |
| LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $110,000 |
| THE MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE | $95,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EXPRESSION | $85,000 |
| NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $55,000 |
| HUNTER SEVEN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SANTA CANTALINA SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES | $40,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $40,000 |
| ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA | $40,000 |
| MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $31,300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TITHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +66%
- COCORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +161%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $495k · revenue +267%
Funded once
- NCNEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $50k
- RJRESTORATIVE JUSTICE PARTNERS INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +17%
- CSCHARTWELL SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +237%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o
Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy and the most unlike its peers is Restorative Justice Partners Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds New Civil Liberties Alliance ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds HUNTER SEVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTWELL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Charles and Marie Robertson 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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