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Jd Robertson Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2021
23
Grants FY2021
22
Organizations funded FY2021
36%
First-time grantees FY2021
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100% of Jd Robertson Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, 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

17
’17
19
’18
9
’19
15
’20
10
’21
9
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$500
Largest grant, FY2021
$26,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 30
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
4
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 36% of the organizations Jd Robertson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202122$48k36%
FY202022$51k27%
FY201915$41k27%
FY201830$40k37%
FY201729$46kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$463kFood & Nutrition$82kArts & Culture$76kHealth$66kEducation$26kHuman Services$8kCommunity Improvement$5kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
MN
NY
MA
OH
TN
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 40 grantees
All grantees of Jd Robertson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc$31,72050%
Playhouse Square Foundation$30,00030%
Hospice of the Western Reserve Inc$24,85040%
St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc$17,50060%
Sun Valley Community School Inc$12,50050%
Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc$5,00020%
Animal Shelter of Wood River Valley Dba Mountain Humane$3,00050%
Hackley School$2,00020%
The Skyline Charitable Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc$1,05040%
Presbyterian Retirement Communities Northwest Foundation$1,00010%
Hailey Ice Inc$1,00010%
Skidmore College$1,00010%
Colgate University$1,00010%
Blaine County Charitable Fund Inc$1,00010%
Seattle Arts and Lectures$1,00010%
Lakeside School$75030%
Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc$50020%
Blaine County Seniors Council Inc the Senior Connection$45030%
Wood River Land Trust Co$40030%
Sun Valley Junior Hockey Inc$4001n/a
Shaker Square Area Development Corp$3003n/a
StandProud$25010%
Farwise Inc$25010%
Seattle Art Museum$22510%
Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes$20020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$20020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20020%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History$10010%
Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique$10010%
American Cancer Society Inc$10010%
Hemingway Parents Auxiliary$1001n/a
The Trustees of Reservations$10010%
North Union Farmers Market$10010%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$10010%
Tidewell Hospice Inc$10010%
Beaumont School$1001n/a
National Forest Foundation$10010%
Monarch Lifeworks$10010%
Eyej$501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jd Robertson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSun Valley Summer Symphony Inc: $31,720 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Western Reserve Inc: $24,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSun Valley Center for the Arts Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Shelter of Wood River Valley Dba Mountain Humane: $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHackley School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Skyline Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Retirement Communities Northwest Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHailey Ice Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSkidmore College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColgate University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlaine County Charitable Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Arts and Lectures: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakeside School: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlaine County Seniors Council Inc the Senior Connection: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWood River Land Trust Co: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStandProud: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFarwise Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Art Museum: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Museum of Natural History: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwo Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Union Farmers Market: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTidewell Hospice Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Forest Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonarch Lifeworks: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

Idaho Community Foundation IncID21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Jd Robertson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Jd Robertson Foundation

How much does Jd Robertson Foundation give?
Jd Robertson Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $57,800 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Jd Robertson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (63%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Jd Robertson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc ($32k), Playhouse Square Foundation ($30k), Hospice of the Western Reserve Inc ($25k).
Does Jd Robertson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jd Robertson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jd Robertson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Idaho Community Foundation Inc, Boswell Family Foundation, Spur Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Jd Robertson Foundation based?
Jd Robertson Foundation is based in OH.

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 67 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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