· Private foundation
Donald and Marie 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 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 $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTERTAIL COUNTY | $36,480 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MN VETERINARY MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| NEW LIFE ACADEMY (NLAEF) | $13,000 |
| ST CROIX PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $13,000 |
| ELY COMMUNITY RESOURCE | $11,480 |
| HILLCREST LUTHERAN ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| WHITE BEAR LAKE FIREWORKS FUND | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,481 |
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 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
- LRLAKE REGION HEALTHCARE CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $126k · revenue +28%
- TEThe Ely Community Resource Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +65%
- SCSt Croix Preparatory Academy2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TATRINITY ACADEMY INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -48%
- NLNEW LIFE ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- WBWHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +240%
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.
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
Inspire and prepare students for academic excellence and cultivate responsbile, engaged, and well-rounded citizens.
The mission of rivers edge academy is, in partnership with parents and community, to prepare urban high school students for their further education and career with rigorous academics, innovative projects and an interdisciplinary…
Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
The organization provides students with a rigorous education and the foundations of virtue and character, while building cultural literacy through a content-rich curriculum in an encouraging environment.
Provide quality childcare services at a central facility in the fosston, mn community. childcare is desperately needed in our area.
Lake country school is a montessori learning environment that fosters independence, critical thinking, and creativity within each child. we are a community that promotes diversity and inclusion, as well as respect and responsibility to…
We believe that children are our best hope to improve the world.
Teaching & equipping tomorrows christian leaders.
By tapping the intrinsic motivation and curiosity of every child, we deliver higher than usual growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Region Healthcare Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Ely Community Resource Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 18 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 LAKE REGION HEALTHCARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Ely Community Resource Inc ↗
- Who funds St Croix Preparatory Academy ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS 544 EDUCATION FOUNDATI ↗
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.
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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 Donald and Marie Roberts Charitable 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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