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Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Fund at a glance

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Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Fund

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$2k
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 2022.

Health$13MEducation$666kArts & Culture$584kPhilanthropy$505kInternational$178kEnvironment$102kYouth Development$40kReligion$27kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,057
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,057
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $1k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $500 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 38 repeat orgs$465k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 38 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
32

Total granted

$15M
$463k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+79%

Still filing today

66%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2017–2020 · $3.9M · revenue +202%
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $500k · revenue +26%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    5× · 2017–2021 · $390k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • IA
    IAM ANGEL FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • GG
    GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERV
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • KT
    KAHILU THEATRE
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Mills College

Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…

—
11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $7,081,013 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $325,000 · Education+11 more: $144,500 · EducationUniversity of Michigan: $3,927,500 · OtherUniversity of MichiganMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $925,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPRESSION C: $600,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPRESSION C+35 more: $655,640 · Other+35 moreBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $500,000 · HealthThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $220,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $4,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $390,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $54,340 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $43,262 · Arts & CultureTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $151,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPER SCHOLAS INC: $25,000 · EmploymentEpiscopal Impact Fund FKA Episcopal Charities: $5,000 · Religion
Education$7,550,513Other$6,108,140Health$774,000Arts & Culture$507,602Philanthropy$161,000Employment$25,000Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $7,081,013 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $390,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $325,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $220,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $151,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO CAMPUS COMPACT: $80,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $54,340 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $10,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $9,247 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Impact Fund FKA Episcopal Charities: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETA GAMMA SIGMA INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOR-SITE Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBY THE BAY HEALTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATTICUS CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE ON AGING: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $190 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds OHIO CAMPUS COMPACT ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Gordon E and Betty I …Morgan Stanley Global…The Rock FoundationThe Marsha and David …Swig FoundationKoret FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…
Marin Community FoundationCA26.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Rock Foundation · The Marsha and David Veit Charitable Foundation Inc · Swig Foundation · Koret Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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 Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 73 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home