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Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation at a glance

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Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$248k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$162k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$821kEmployment$419kPhilanthropy$248kHuman Services$206kEducation$132kFood & Nutrition$56kReligion$38kYouth Development$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPPORTUNITY HOUSE$162,000
FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$35,000
CASA DEKALB COUNTY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 13%SAFE PASSAGE: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 0%.

Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 19 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
40

Total granted

$1.6M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+18%

Still filing today

63%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEmploymentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OH
    OPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $409k · revenue +50%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +248%
  • KF
    KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA
    6× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • SH
    SYCAMORE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $21k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • RC
    RAMP CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Dekalb History Center

Historical preservation. the organization collects, preserves, and shares the history of dekalb county, georgia. the organization's archives and museum are open to the public for research.

Arts & Culture
2
Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc

The community foundation of dekalb county promotes community philanthropy by offering local citizens the opportunity to create a charitable legacy that will sustain and improve life in our county.

Philanthropy
3
Elder Care Services of Dekalb County Inc

Elder care services of dekalb county, inc. was established to promote and further the welfare of senior citizens and their families who live in dekalb county, through the provision of services which improve their well being and quality of…

Crime & Legal
4
Dekalb County Farm Bureau

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

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5
Dekalb County Economic Development Partnership Inc

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
6
Dekalb Community Impact Corporation

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

Recreation & Sports
7
Dekalb Library Foundation Inc

To support and enhance the dekalb county public library service, including support for literacy programs, children's reading programs, and georgia center for the book.

Education
8
Decatur County Community Foundation Inc

The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.

Philanthropy
9
Decatur Chamber of Commerce

Develop commerce in the city of decatur indiana

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10
Douglas County Farm Bureau

Work to improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family

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11
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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12
Dekalb County Children's Advocacy Center Inc

Prevent/intervene in child abuse situations

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Collaboratory. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 63 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $285,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $131,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY I…SYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSYCAMORE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $28,100 · Other+43 more: $234,200 · Other+43 moreDeKalb County History Center: $454,849 · Arts & CultureDeKalb County History Cente…COLLABORATORY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLABORATORY+4 more: $13,055 · Arts & CultureOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC: $409,470 · EmploymentOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC+1 more: $10,000 · EmploymentDEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $207,500 · PhilanthropyDEKALB COUNTY…CHARLOTTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTE COM…MARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $60,000 · Human ServicesSAFE PASSAGE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $35,000 · EducationADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Youth Development
Other$728,300Arts & Culture$497,904Employment$419,470Philanthropy$250,500Human Services$70,000Education$35,000Youth Development$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDeKalb County History Center: $454,849 over 7y, 24% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC: $409,470 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $207,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $131,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $18,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASA DeKalb County Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMARION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $6,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetELMWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP: $4,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThis is My Brave Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Dekalb County Communi…Northwestern Memorial…Ideal Industries Foun…Sycamore Charities In…George E& Betty Bdutt…Katz Family FoundationHorizons Unlimited Fo…The Chicago Community…Kishwaukee United WayNorthwestern Memorial…Northern Illinois Foo…Nebraska Community Fo…
Dekalb County Community FoundationIL45× affinity19 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 · Ideal Industries Foundation · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation · Katz Family Foundation · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Kishwaukee United Way · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Nebraska Community Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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