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Margery Roberts Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$726k
Granted FY2019
20
Grants FY2019
7
States reached
$645k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Health$699kArts & Culture$40kInternational$20kEnvironment$17kYouth Development$13kCivil Rights$11kPhilanthropy$6kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2019 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k16 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
  • $250k+1 grant · $645k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHESDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$645,101
CALIFORNIANS FOR POPULATION STABILI$15,000
NUMBERS USA FOUNDATION$15,000
JUSTIN'S CLUB$12,500
EQUESTRIAN AIDS FOUNDATION$8,200
ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS AWARE$7,500
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES$5,000
LITERARY COALITION OF PALM BEACH CO$2,500
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF COLORADO$2,500
DOCUMENTARY EDUCATION RESOURCES$2,500
DANNY AND RON'S RESCUE$2,500
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$2,500
JEWISH FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH$2,000
CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$1,000
DELRAY BEACH PLAYHOUSE$1,000
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 (FY17–18, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $100 → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $100 → 11%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

NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
VA
TN
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$732k · 10 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +158% since the first grant, against +145% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$732k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+158%
+145%

Still filing today

30%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • BH
    Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $673k · revenue +186%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $11k · revenue +118%
  • DB
    DELRAY BEACH PLAYHOUSE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • JC
    JUSTIN'S CLUB HEALING INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • EA
    EQUESTRIAN AIDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +167%

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
8
The Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
10
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Livermore Heritage Guild. 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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc — $672,701 · OtherBethesda Hospital Foundation IncKRAVITZ CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING A — $30,000 · Other+19 more — $70,491 · Other+19 moreNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $11,100 · HealthEquestrian Aid Foundation — $8,200 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthDELRAY BEACH PLAYHOUSE INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Immigration Studies Inc — $5,000 · Civil RightsDANNY & RONS RESCUE — $2,500 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · AnimalsRIVER OTTER ECOLOGY PROJECT — $1,000 · AnimalsDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $2,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC — $200 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$773,192Health$19,400Arts & Culture$6,500Civil Rights$5,000Animals$4,500Human Services$2,700Philanthropy$2,000

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 budgetBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc — $672,701 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCalifornians for Population Stabilization — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $11,100 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEquestrian Aid Foundation — $8,200 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for Immigration Studies Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELRAY BEACH PLAYHOUSE INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER OTTER ECOLOGY PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVERMORE HERITAGE GUILD — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $16 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC — $15 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Margery Roberts Foundation Inc 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 34 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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