· Private foundation
Reuben B Robertson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Winter Nights Family Shelter | $4,100 |
| Forest History Society | $3,000 |
| Cincinnati Area Senior Services | $2,100 |
| Zoological Society of Cincinnati | $2,000 |
| Southwest Veterans Foundation | $2,000 |
| Make a Wish Foundation | $1,950 |
| ProKids | $1,850 |
| YMCA House of Peace | $1,850 |
| Christ Hospital Cancer Center | $1,850 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center | $1,850 |
| The UW Foundation | $1,850 |
| Stepping Stones Center | $1,850 |
| The Children Heart Association | $1,850 |
| Beech Acres | $1,850 |
| Seattle Childrens Hospital | $1,850 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WNWinter Nights Family Shelter Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +62%
- SVSOUTHWEST VETERANS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +199%
- LLLAKE LOGAN CONFERENCE CENTER AND CAMP HENRY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +554%
- USUniversity School Alumni Assoicatone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Marine Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 47 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE LOGAN CONFERENCE CENTER AND CAMP HENRY INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PERMISSION TO START DREAMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Area Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC MARINE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds Clermont Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRASAD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Reuben B 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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