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Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
52%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,588,754
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,953,878
Organizations funded a year
13 to 29
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2025still arriving3$8.6M67%
FY202429$995k52%
FY202320$565k35%
FY202219$481k5%
FY202123$651k43%
FY202018$496k28%
FY201915$375k27%
FY201813$390k15%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$11MInternational$1.7MEducation$615kReligion$575kHuman Services$381kHealth$340kCrime & Legal$320kYouth Development$150kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
KS
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Center for Victims of Torture$1,180,00091%
Life Learning Academy$250,00081%
Catholic Charities Inc$170,00060%
Oxfam-America Inc$140,00070%
Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International$110,00043%
The Junior League of Wichita Inc$50,000117%
The Pando Initiative Inc$50,00031%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$40,00080%
Live in Peace$40,00040%
Youth Horizons Inc$20,00021%
Homeboy Industries$20,00020%
Casa Inc$20,00020%
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc$10,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$10,00010%
Rise Up for Youth Inc$10,00012%
Better Tomorrow$8,41013%
Hope Haven Charitable Trust$5,00010%
Hope Haven Inc$5,00010%
Faithbuilders Inc$3,00031%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center for Victims of Torture: $1,180,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLife Learning Academy: $250,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Inc: $170,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $140,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTorture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International: $110,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetThe Junior League of Wichita Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetThe Pando Initiative Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLive in Peace: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetYouth Horizons Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHomeboy Industries: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRise Up for Youth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBetter Tomorrow: $8,410 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHope Haven Charitable Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope Haven Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFaithbuilders Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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 19.

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.

Berry Foundation IncKS15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berry Foundation Inc · Wichita Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Deboer Foundation Inc · United Way of the Plains Inc · Servant Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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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About Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation

How much does Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation give?
Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $8,617,632 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), International (11%), Education (4%).
Who are Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Center for Victims of Torture ($1.2M), Life Learning Academy ($250k), Catholic Charities Inc ($170k).
Does Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berry Foundation Inc, Wichita Foundation, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353.
Where is Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation based?
Margaret a Roberts Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

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 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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