· 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 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 $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 |
| OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC | $50,000 |
| SANTA CANTALINA SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA | $40,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES | $40,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $40,000 |
| MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $31,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 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 THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTWELL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles and Marie Robertson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles and Marie Robertson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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