How much does Robers Family Foundationinc give?

Robers Family Foundationinc reported 15 grants totaling $72,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Robers Family Foundationinc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Education (17%), Animals (16%).

Who are Robers Family Foundationinc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Washington University ($90k), Brandywine Valley Spca ($82k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($42k).

Does Robers Family Foundationinc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Robers Family Foundationinc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Robers Family Foundationinc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Chester County Community Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Where is Robers Family Foundationinc based?

Robers Family Foundationinc is based in MD.

Robers Family Foundationinc

Robers Family Foundationinc at a glance

· Private foundation

Robers Family Foundationinc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$73k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11k

Largest

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 2025.

Religion$157kEducation$90kAnimals$84kInternational$63kHealth$53kArts & Culture$24kHuman Services$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $31k
$10k–50k4 grants · $42k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$464k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$11,000
ROTHMAN INSTITUTE ORTHOPAEDIC FOUNDATION	$10,800
BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA	$10,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS	$10,000
CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT	$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$5,000
CENTER FOR CHRISTOGENESIS	$5,000
THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$5,000
ST CORNELIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH	$1,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY	$1,000
MARYKNOLL	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES	$1,000
SISTERS OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$482k · 30 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$482k

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+9%

Still filing today

60%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +76%
BV
BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA
7× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +142%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +98%

Funded once

WC
WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +9%
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
one grant, 2018 · $5k
LH
LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +31%

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.

Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Mercy Health

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…

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St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Chs Services Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Mercy Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Good Shepherd Hospice Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Catholic Health System of Long Island

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities

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Good Shepherd Hospice

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio. 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

39 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. 39 of the 59 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

27/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$186,329Education$90,000Animals$83,850Human Services$51,700International$43,300Health$42,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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.

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Center for Action and Contemplation · Claneil Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Robers Family Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robers Family Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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 · 0–30%

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.

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