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Roberti Family Foundation for Civic Engagement Inc at a glance

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Roberti Family Foundation for Civic Engagement Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$214k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$288kHealth$209kEducation$147kInternational$41kReligion$13kEnvironment$10kAnimals$5kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMFAR THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH$52,500
THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA$40,000
HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER$35,000
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY$25,000
NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN$16,000
THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL$10,000
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM$10,000
BRYCE HARLOW FOUNDATION$5,000
BETH'S FURRY FRIENDS FOUNDATION$5,000
BEAUVOIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$2,500
ZUHRES WORLD FOUNDATION$1,000
LYNDHURST LITTLE LEAGUE$1,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $5k → 8%THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA: $40k → 16%THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $10k → 14%DORMINTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $13k → 7%MOMA PS1: $50k → 13%BETH'S FURRY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: $60k → 14%ZUHRES WORLD FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER: $35k → 9%NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $54k → 9%GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 5%LYNDHURST LITTLE LEAGUE: $1k → 7%CHANCE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM: $10k → 14%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $1k → 8%NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $16k → 17%SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: $53k → 14%HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER: $22k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $45k → 17%SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: $41k → 14%HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER: $11k → 9%THE MET MUSEUM: $59k → 17%SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: $25k → 14%NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY: $10k → 9%AMFAR THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $60k → 17%PEN AMERICA: $500 → 14%AMFAR THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $53k → 17%BEAUVOIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $3k → 14%AMFAR THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $10k → 17%THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC: $2k → 14%BRYCE HARLOW FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$375k · 4 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$375k
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+140%

Still filing today

100%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • TS
    THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $178k · revenue +53%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH
    3× · 2021–2024 · $123k · revenue +6%
  • HW
    HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MET MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $59k
  • ND
    NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $54k
  • MP
    MOMA PS1
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Beth's Furry Friends Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 27 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC: $68,000 · OtherHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INCTHE MET MUSEUM: $59,459 · OtherTHE MET MUSEUMNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $53,533 · OtherNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOLMOMA PS1: $50,000 · OtherMOMA PS1THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $40,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS A…DORMINTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $12,500 · Other+11 more: $39,750 · Other+11 moreTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $178,481 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRETHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $122,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR A…GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $3,500 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEE…NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $16,000 · EducationNEW YORK SC…OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEY…NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentBETH'S FURRY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Animals
Other$323,242Arts & Culture$178,481Health$131,000Education$71,000Environment$10,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $178,481 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $122,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC: $68,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bryce Harlow Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBETH'S FURRY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Roberti Family Foundation for Civic Engagement Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roberti Family Foundation for Civic Engagement Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc: 9% of income from government
  • High Watch Recovery Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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