How much did EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATION reported 36 grants totaling $368,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATION based?

EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATION is based in CT.

EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$369k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$25k

Largest

01What you fund

0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$2.0MEducation$187kYouth Development$83kRecreation & Sports$79kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$1.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

artssymphony orchestrachamber orchestramuseum artbritainballetartists

2019

artschamber orchestraartbushnellballet

2020

children'sdanceconcert seriessummerstageseasonproduction

2021

installationcommissionshakespeare festivalartseasonproduction

2022

dance productionexhibitionsconcert seriesseasonresidencyfilm

2023

summer concertconcert seriesproductionseasonexhibitionresidencyperforming arts

2025

johnexhibitresidenciesproductionconcert seriescelebrationexhibition

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $127k
$10k–50k16 grants · $242k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

STOWE CENTER FOR LITERARY ACTIVISM$25,000
THEATERWORKS$25,000
HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$25,000
HARTFORD STAGE$25,000
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$20,000
GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ$20,000
CAPITAL CLASSICS THEATRE COMPANY$12,000
CONNECTICUT BALLET$10,000
JUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT$10,000
HARTFORD PERFORMS$10,000
HARTFORD CHORALE$10,000
BALLET HARTFORD$10,000
KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL$10,000
FIRST NIGHT$10,000
WOMEN COMPOSERS FESTIVAL OF HARTFORD$10,000

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.

None of your grants could be placed against cost of living need for this view.

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 5% of EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATION’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, 100% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 5.2% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 63 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+36%

Still filing today

60%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

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THEATERWORKS
9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +1%
GH
GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +115%
NB
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
7× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +26%

Funded once

AC
AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTUREgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +297%
MT
MARK TWAIN HOUSE & MUSEUM
one grant, 2023 · $13k
CP
CUATRO PUNTAS
one grant, 2022 · $12k

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.

New Haven Center for Performing

The mission of the new haven center for performing arts is to promote and foster an appreciation for the performing arts through the ownership and operation of indoor and outdoor performing arts facilities; to serve the local community by…

Arts & Culture

Hartford Historic Preservation

To preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.

Philanthropy

The Eastern Connecticut Symphony

The mission of the eastern connecticut symphony, inc. is to inspire, educate and connect our communities through live orchestral music.

Arts & Culture

Southeastern Connecticut Community Orchestra Inc

Arts & Culture

Worcester Center for Performing

The hanover theatre seeks to ignite and nurture a passion for the performing arts in audiences and artists of today and tomorrow. in doing so we will participate fully in the revitalization of downtown worcester by bringing vistiors to the…

Arts & Culture

Opera Connecticut Inc

Performing operas for the public

Arts & Culture

New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc

The nhso enriches connecticut's cultural landscape through exceptional performances and education programs that are accessible to residents from all walks of life. innovative programming offered statewide inspires deeper audience…

Arts & Culture

Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health

Connecticut Trust for Historic

Interacts with other groups, individuals and organizations to encourage, advocate and facilitate historical preservation throughout connecticut.

Arts & Culture

Currier Gallery of Art

Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.

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Boston Opera Collaborative

Stage live opera performances.

Arts & Culture

Norwich Arts Center Inc

Promote local art and art appreciation.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Performs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. 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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%2/56

the rest of the field

421/5,193

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.

06the grantee network

49 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)

47/49

Grantees still filing

34/49

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,996,175Other$1,402,775Education$187,000Youth Development$82,500Recreation & Sports$78,500Community Improvement$8,300

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.

Connecticut Humanities Council IncCT84.6× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Preston E W Tr Uw Ewp Memorial · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · The Auerbach Schiro 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 organisation EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: CUATRO PUNTOS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 474862489 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 CUATRO PUNTOS, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% 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.

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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.

EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

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

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation?

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EDWARD C & ANN T ROBERTS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

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

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation?

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