· Private foundation
R & T Robertson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN | $5,000 |
| CHRISTUS SPOHN HEALTH SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| MISSION OF MERCY | $3,000 |
| HCA HEALTHCARE HOPE FUND | $3,000 |
| HALO - FLIGHT | $2,000 |
| MISSION 911 | $2,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS | $2,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FAFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +356%
- HFHALO FLIGHT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +85%
- CSChristus Spohn Health System Corporation4× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD'S CORNERone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -16%
- TUTHE UNIVERISTY OF TEXAS - AUSTINone grant, 2022 · $2k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +28%
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.
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.
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.
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…
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.
Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the health ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Support the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.
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.
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.
To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization R & T Robertson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R & T Robertson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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