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Joseph & Florence Roblee Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Civil Rights$868kHealth$629kEducation$523kHuman Services$480kYouth Development$382kCommunity Improvement$374kCrime & Legal$273kEmployment$233kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOURI ORGANIZING & VOTER ENGAGEMENT$75,000
ACLU OF MISSOURI FOUNDATION$50,000
PROMO FUND$50,000
METRO TRANS UMBRELLA GROUP$40,000
ACTION ST LOUIS$37,500
THISTL$35,000
YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA$30,000
WOMEN'S EMERGENCY NETWORK$30,000
WEPOWER$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF FLORIDA$30,000
THE BLACK COLLECTIVE$30,000
KIDS WIN MISSOURI$30,000
MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE$30,000
EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE$30,000
EMANCIPATE NC$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $23k → 11%TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING: $20k → 12%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK: $10k → 17%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $25k → 21%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $20k → 21%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $20k → 21%PROMO FUND: $50k → 21%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $30k → 11%YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA: $30k → 15%URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $15k → 11%YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA: $20k → 15%NARAL PRO-CHOICE MISSOURI FOUNDATION: $25k → 21%THE ALLIANCE FOR LGBTQ YOUTH INC: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
MO
NC
SC
DC
FL

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.

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 57 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
86

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+20%

Still filing today

82%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $531k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TS
    THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES
    3× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +109%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER
    4× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +14%
  • MB
    MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT
    5× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • GE
    GATEWAY EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE-STL FDN
    one grant, 2023 · $45k
  • MM
    MOVE MO- MISSOURI INCLUSIVE DEMO
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • AC
    American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $30k

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.

1
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…

Crime & Legal
2
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
3
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
4
Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.

Civil Rights
5
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
6
Equality Illinois

Equality illinois builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.

Philanthropy
7
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
8
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
9
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
10
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
11
Care Net Center of Greater Orleans

Pregnancy counseling

Unclassified
12
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Fair Food. 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 28 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr12%10%5–10yr16%16%10–20yr15%31%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr24%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%6%<5yr12%13%5–10yr16%14%10–20yr15%37%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr24%13%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/111
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,380

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.

04the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 172 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/110
Grantees still filing
73/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISSOURI ORGANIZING & VOTER ENGAGEMENT — $100,000 · OtherNational Network of Abortion Funds — $82,500 · Other+103 more — $2,215,487 · Other+103 moreMISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT — $95,000 · Human ServicesMISSOURI BUDG…KIDS WIN MISSOURI — $55,000 · Human ServicesKIDS WIN MISS…PROMO FUND — $50,000 · Human ServicesPROMO FUNDAbortion Action Missouri Foundation — $50,000 · Human ServicesAbortion Acti…YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesYWCA SOUTH FL…YOUTH IN NEED — $33,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH IN NEEDGOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $24,700 · Human ServicesTHE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER — $22,500 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR FAIR FOOD — $20,000 · Human ServicesVITENDO4AFRICA — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE COVERING HOUSE — $20,000 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING — $20,000 · Human Services+7 more — $72,500 · Human Services+7 moreTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES — $115,000 · EducationTHE SOULF…TURN THE PAGE STL — $45,000 · EducationTURN THE …Black Girls Do STEM — $40,000 · EducationBlack Gir…PROJECT YESINC — $40,000 · EducationPROJECT Y…THE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN — $35,000 · EducationTHE EDUCA…READY READERS — $30,000 · EducationREADY REA…HOYLETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 · EducationGIRL POWER ROCKS INC — $20,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC — $17,500 · Education+3 more — $30,000 · Education+3 moreCATALYST MIAMI INC — $86,500 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION — $80,000 · Community ImprovementWEPOWER — $60,000 · Community ImprovementEast Side Aligned — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BLACK COLLECTIVE INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementPARENTS UNITED FOR CHANGE - COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES — $25,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER — $95,000 · Crime & LegalEmancipate NC Inc — $81,250 · Crime & LegalACTION ST LOUIS — $62,500 · Crime & LegalARCHCITY DEFENDERS — $45,000 · Crime & LegalKRISTI HOUSE INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY — $15,000 · Crime & LegalGENERATE HEALTH STL — $82,550 · HealthPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC — $40,000 · HealthHEALING ACTION NETWORK INC — $35,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $30,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers — $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $22,000 · HealthReproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers — $20,000 · HealthMISSOURI FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · HealthGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Health+3 more — $6,500 · HealthDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTL YOUTH JOBS — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentPRIDELINES YOUTH SERVICES INC — $29,000 · Youth DevelopmentOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,397,987Human Services$532,700Education$392,500Community Improvement$336,500Crime & Legal$318,750Health$296,050Youth Development$271,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES — $115,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER — $95,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT — $95,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCATALYST MIAMI INC — $86,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGENERATE HEALTH STL — $82,550 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds — $82,500 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetEmancipate NC Inc — $81,250 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION — $80,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc — $77,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY — $70,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetACTION ST LOUIS — $62,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWEPOWER — $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOSTER CARE REVIEW INC — $57,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS WIN MISSOURI — $55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC — $55,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTHISTL — $52,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAbortion Action Missouri Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast Side Aligned — $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetYWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSOURI FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMissouri Workers Center — $42,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSTL YOUTH JOBS — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBlack Girls Do STEM — $40,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetMiami Workers Center Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT YESINC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEALING ACTION NETWORK INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $33,405 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH IN NEED — $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LUCY PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADY READERS — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPRIDELINES YOUTH SERVICES INC — $29,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARENTS UNITED FOR CHANGE - COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $24,700 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER — $22,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

St Louis Community Fo…Trio Foundation of St…St Louis Community Fo…Youthbridge Community…Commerce Bancshares F…United Way of Greater…Moneta Group Charitab…Norman J Stupp Founda…Washington UniversityPecha Family Foundati…Employees Community F…Brown Dana Charitable…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO72.3× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Washington University · Pecha Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Brown Dana Charitable Trust

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 Joseph & Florence Roblee 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Ywca South Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
20report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Joseph & Florence Roblee Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph & Florence Roblee 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 172 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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