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Robert Family Fdn

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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$406kHealth$219kYouth Development$80kFood & Nutrition$47kArts & Culture$46kHuman Services$28kPhilanthropy$15kHousing & Shelter$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION$95,000
EATING DISORDERS RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
JW HOUSE$10,000
CHAMBER MUSIC AMICI$5,000
BOYS' GIRLS' CLUB OF SILICON VALL$2,500
HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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%FRONT DOOR COMMUITIES: $5k → 8%FRONT DOOR COMMUNITIES: $4k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $8k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $8k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $5k → 8%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$815k · 16 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$815k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $254k · revenue +2%
  • ED
    EATING DISORDERS RESOURCE CENTER
    7× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +185%
  • HK
    HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $53k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • LH
    LEIGH HIGH HOME AND SCHOOL CLUB
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -63%
  • OS
    OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • NV
    NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -89%
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
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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2
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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3
Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California

To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.

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4
North Olympic Healthcare Network

To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.

Health
5
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
6
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
7
Theatre Bay Area

(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.

Arts & Culture
8
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
9
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
10
Mentis

Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.

Human Services
11
Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation

Improving health, healing people.

Health
12
North Bay Childrens Center Inc

North Bay Childrens Center provides comprehensive high-quality childcare and early education programs fueled by our vision of excellence and a spirit of innovation. Our mission is to assure optimal development for every child we serve.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Front Door Communities. 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

16 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. 16 of the 23 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $253,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS: $12,500 · EducationLEIGH HIGH HOME AND SCHOOL CLUB: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $140,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGONSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $47,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SILICON: $30,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SILICON+5 more: $20,500 · Other+5 moreEATING DISORDERS RESOURCE CENTER: $107,500 · HealthEATING DISORDERS RESOURCE CE…HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION: $52,500 · HealthHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATIONJW HOUSE: $45,000 · HealthJW HOUSEST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,000 · HealthCHAMBER MUSIC AMICI: $23,000 · Arts & CultureNorth Texas Performing Arts: $12,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentBILL WILSON CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesFront Door Communities: $9,000 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $3,000 · Animals
Education$276,000Other$237,500Health$214,000Arts & Culture$45,500Youth Development$40,000Human Services$29,000Philanthropy$7,000Animals$3,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $253,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEATING DISORDERS RESOURCE CENTER: $107,500 over 7y, 15% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJW HOUSE: $45,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC AMICI: $23,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Performing Arts: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLEIGH HIGH HOME AND SCHOOL CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFront Door Communities: $9,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTACARE BAY AREA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Rotary Club of San Jo…United Way WorldwideKaiser Foundation Hos…Texas Instruments Fou…The Sobrato Family Fo…Heffernan Group Found…Jewish Community Fede…AbbVie FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA16.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Chamber Music Amici: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–30%
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.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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