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R & T Robertson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$49kEducation$39kHuman Services$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kFood & Nutrition$14kCrime & Legal$10kEmployment$6k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$294k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN$5,000
CHRISTUS SPOHN HEALTH SYSTEM$5,000
HCA HEALTHCARE HOPE FUND$3,000
MISSION OF MERCY$3,000
ST JAMES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$3,000
MISSION 911$2,000
FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS$2,000
HALO - FLIGHT$2,000
CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES$2,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$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 (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 16%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $3k → 17%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $2k → 17%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $2k → 17%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $2k → 17%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $2k → 17%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $2k → 17%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $2k → 17%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $2k → 17%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $2k → 17%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $2k → 17%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $2k → 17%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $2k → 17%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $2k → 17%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $2k → 17%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $1k → 17%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $1k → 17%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $1k → 17%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $1k → 17%MISSION OF MERCY: $3k → 17%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.

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.
$146k · 10 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$146k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+28%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthOther

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

  • FA
    FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +356%
  • HF
    HALO FLIGHT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +65%
  • CS
    Christus Spohn Health System Corporation
    4× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD'S CORNER
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -16%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERISTY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +28%

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
Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center

To serve the community with respect to providing healthcare services and healthcare education regardless of race, sex, creed, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay.

Health
2
Methodist Hospitals of Dallas

The primary mission or purpose of methodist health system is to serve people in defined service areas by meeting their health needs effectively and in a manner that reflects a "commitment to the christian concepts of life and learning" as…

Health
3
Ssm Health Care of Oklahoma Inc

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health
4
Christus Health

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

Health
5
Christus Santa Rosa Health Care Corporation

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the health ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

Health
6
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Christus Health Ark-La-Tex

Support the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

Health
8
The Methodist Hospital

To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.

Health
9
Christus Health Southeast Texas

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the teachings of the catholic church.

Health
10
Spring Branch Community Health Center

To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.

Health
11
Scott & White Clinic

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Southern Sector Health Initiative

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christus Spohn Health System Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Good Shepherd's Corner. 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

9 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. 9 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JAMES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL SCHOOLMISSION 911 — $19,000 · OtherMISSION 911HALO FLIGHT INC — $18,000 · OtherHALO FLIGHT INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN — $15,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTINPALMER DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM — $10,000 · OtherPALMER DRUG ABUSE PROGRAMGOOD SHEPHERD'S CORNER — $6,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD'S CORNER+2 more — $5,000 · Other+2 moreFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION — $19,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS …CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC — $14,000 · Human ServicesCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRI…GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO — $6,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN …MISSION OF MERCY INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OF MERCY INCChristus Spohn Health System Corporation — $16,000 · HealthChristus Sp…Baylor College of Medicine — $9,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $2,000 · Education
Other$93,000Human Services$42,000Health$16,000Education$11,000

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 budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION — $19,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetHALO FLIGHT INC — $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChristus Spohn Health System Corporation — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC — $14,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD'S CORNER — $6,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO — $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $2,000 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.

  • Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HALO FLIGHT INC
  • Who funds Christus Spohn Health System Corporation
  • Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD'S CORNER
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO
  • Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH

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.

Laverne & Thomas Howell FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · 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 R & T Robertson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 15 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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