· Private foundation
Jd Robertson Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Jd Robertson Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Jd Robertson Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $58k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k21 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNGER COALITION OF WOOD RIVER | $26,000 |
| THE SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | $6,000 |
| ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SKYLINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE | $1,000 |
| WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA | $1,000 |
| HEMINGWAY SCHOOL | $750 |
| HOSPICE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $250 |
| FRIENDS OF IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2021, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SVSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC5× · 2017–2022 · $32k · revenue +7%
- PSPlayhouse Square Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +35%
- HOHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC4× · 2018–2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSone grant, 2017 · $3k
- APARGYROS PERFROMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +18%
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.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
A member owned cooperative providing financial services, including loans and share deposits to its members.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hemingway Parents Auxiliary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 67 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds HACKLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SKYLINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES ↗
- Who funds HAILEY ICE INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY JUNIOR HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds Shaker Square Area Development Corp ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Heinz Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Nicholas Martin Jr Family Foundation · Helios Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Cleveland 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 organization Jd Robertson 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.
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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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