How much did DOUGLAS C & LYNN M ROBERTS grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$498kEmployment$252kPhilanthropy$251kHuman Services$70kFood & Nutrition$19kCommunity Improvement$10kCivil Rights$8kHousing & Shelter$5kHealth$1kOther$670k

02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $1k
$10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$50k–250k2 grants · $184k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER$110,000
OPPORTUNITY HOUSE$74,000
GLIDDEN HOMESTEAD$20,000
FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY$20,000
CASA DEKALB COUNTY$1,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 77% of DOUGLAS C & LYNN M ROBERTS’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 23% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

DOUGLAS C & LYNN M ROBERTSlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 19 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+48%

Still filing today

47%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEmploymentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

DC
DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER
7× · 2018–2024 · $455k · revenue +341%
OH
OPPORTUNITY HOUSE
7× · 2017–2024 · $247k · revenue +50%
DC
DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
5× · 2017–2022 · $208k · revenue +222%

Funded once

SH
SYCAMORE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM
one grant, 2017 · $21k
NP
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
one grant, 2018 · $20k
RC
RAMP CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
one grant, 2018 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Dekalb County Economic Development

Promote and assist the growth and development of business in dekalb county, attract business and industry to dekalb county, assist with workforce development, and facilitate demographic research and educational activities.

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Dekalb County Economic Development

Were on a mission to improve the quality of life for the citizens of dekalb county through the responsible growth of business and industry. our vision is to facilitate investment into making dekalb county a premier economic driver in…

Community Improvement

Landmarks of Dekalb County Inc

Landmarks of dekalb county, inc was created for the purpose of sharing and preserving the history of the people and places in dekalb county, alabama.

Arts & Culture

Dekalb County Nursing Home Foundation in

Support of county nursing home

Community Improvement

Delaware County Historical Society

To promote and sustain interest in the history of delaware county, ohio through historical preservation and education.

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Dekalb County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life.

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Dubuque County Historical Society

To interpret and protect the life, history and culture of our region and rivers.

Arts & Culture

Dekalb County Fair Association Inc

Conduct annual county fair

Recreation & Sports

Dekalb County Council On Aging Inc

To improve the quality of life of the seniors, disabled persons and others in our community through services and programs that meet their physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and mobile needs.

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Power of the Past of Decatur County

To promote interest in antique tractors.

Recreation & Sports

Dekalb Community Impact Corporation

Responds to community needs with compassionate, Christ-centered programs and services

Recreation & Sports

Dekalb Area Retirement Center

A faith based not-for-profit community serving people 62 years and older through a continuum of services enhancing an individual's quality of life.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ohio Historical Society. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/26

the rest of the field

11%

7,682/72,333

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/26

Grantees still filing

17/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$683,700Arts & Culture$497,904Employment$252,470Philanthropy$250,500Human Services$70,000Food & Nutrition$18,600Community Improvement$10,000

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.

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.

Dekalb County Community FoundationIL37.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation · Ideal Industries Foundation · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Chicago Community Trust · Katz Family Foundation · Bickner Family Foundation · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Kishwaukee United Way · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

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 organisation DOUGLAS C & LYNN M ROBERTS 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~31 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 363329746 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 31 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 30% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts?

Find your warmest path to Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DOUGLAS C & LYNN M ROBERTS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts?

More from the funding graph

DOUGLAS C & LYNN M ROBERTS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts?

More from the funding graph