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Neal Roberts Family Foundation at a glance

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Neal Roberts Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2018
13
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$4k
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 2018.

Education$10kHealth$905Civil Rights$585Arts & Culture$405Environment$375International$300Housing & Shelter$100Public Benefit$100Other$0
02FY2018 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$4,000
STEP ONE SCHOOL$3,000
MENDICINO PUBLIC RADIO KZYX$100
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$100
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$100
PROTECTION OF THE HOLY VIRGIN RUSSIAN$100
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$50
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50
TILE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$45
LAKE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL$35
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN$35
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$30
EASTERSEALS$15
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $3k → 9%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $1k → 9%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
DC
AL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11k · 6 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
20

Total granted

$11k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+40%

Still filing today

67%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k
  • SO
    Step One School
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue -1%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $300 · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $400 · revenue +12%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $175
  • GM
    GLOBAL MOBILITY
    one grant, 2017 · $150 · revenue -96%
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
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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2
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
3
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

—
4
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
6
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
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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9
Los Angeles County Medical Association

To enhance the professionalism and clinical autonomy of physicians to allow them to advocate for their patients and the health of the community of los angeles.

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10
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
American Health Law Association

The mission of the american health law association is to deliver authoritative educational content and serve as a professional home for all who engage with health law.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California; the most unlike its peers is Global Mobility. 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

23 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. 23 of the 34 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+19 more: $1,560 · Other+19 moreStep One School: $4,000 · Human ServicesStep One SchoolPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $400 · HealthGLOBAL MOBILITY: $150 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · HealthUCLA FOUNDATION: $200 · EducationVermont Law School: $100 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $50 · EducationSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $300 · Crime & LegalTILE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $90 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE: $55 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $40 · Arts & CultureLAKE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $35 · Arts & CultureTREEPEOPLE INC: $150 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $50 · Environment
Other$7,560Human Services$4,000Health$650Education$350Crime & Legal$300Arts & Culture$220Environment$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStep One School: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL MOBILITY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Law School: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE: $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $15 over 1y, 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Neal Roberts Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neal Roberts Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report 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, 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 34 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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