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Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation

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.

$14k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$24k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$14k30%
FY20248$10k13%
FY20237$7k29%
FY20226$4k17%
FY20216$2k17%
FY20205$2k60%
FY20194$1k25%
FY20184$8000%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$12kHousing & Shelter$7kReligion$6kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$5kEnvironment$1kEducation$700Arts & Culture$675Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
I Am Ministries Inc$5,8008n/a
Shining Light Garden Foundation Inc$4,00031%
Safespace Inc$3,80070%
The Hope for Families Center Inc$3,55050%
Women's Refuge of Vero Beach Inc$1,90030%
McKee Botanical Garden Inc$1,00010%
Hibiscus Children's Center Inc$70030%
Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc$63020%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

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.

Indian River Community Foundation IncFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · John's Island Community Service League Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · United Way of Indian River County Inc · Ethel Kennedy Foundation · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation

How much does Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation give?
Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $13,675 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Housing & Shelter (18%), Religion (14%).
Who are Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: I Am Ministries Inc ($6k), Shining Light Garden Foundation Inc ($4k), Safespace Inc ($4k).
Does Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation 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 Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Indian River Community Foundation Inc, Bailey Family Foundation Inc, Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc.
Where is Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation based?
Robert Lockwood Solley Foundation is based in FL.

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 16 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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