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Roberts Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Roberts Charitable 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.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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$471kInternational$262kHousing & Shelter$191kHealth$52kEmployment$50kYouth Development$35kFood & Nutrition$35kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENYA PARTNERS$82,126
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$40,000
THE CHRISTIAN MISSION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MOORESVILLE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $100k → 9%SACRED JOURNEY HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%HOMESTRETCH INC: $42k → 4%MOORESVILLE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $40k → 9%HOMESTRETCH INC: $39k → 4%HOMESTRETCH INC: $35k → 4%MOORESVILLE AREA CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $20k → 9%HOMESTRETCH INC: $20k → 4%THE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $10k → 9%THE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $10k → 9%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

MA
CA
VA
MD
NC
SC
GA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$979k · 7 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$979k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $291k · revenue +126%
  • KP
    KENYA PARTNERS
    6× · 2017–2025 · $252k · revenue +39%
  • MA
    Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • SC
    STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +12%
  • SH
    Shelter House Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +33%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $21k
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
SupportWorks Housing

We end homelessness by providing permanent housing and supportive services.

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2
New Covenant Safe Haven

New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…

Human Services
3
Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter
4
Samaritan House Inc

Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
5
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition

We provide community members facing homlessness with chelter, resurces, and advoccy to create a strong and thriving widbey island.

Housing & Shelter
6
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
7
Emergency Shelter Inc

The mission of HomeAgain is to assist families and individuals experiencing homelessness to secure and maintain a home, again.

Housing & Shelter
8
Seven Stars Christian Church

Mission Church

Religion
9
St Francis-St Joseph Catholic Worker House

Provide food and shelter to 16 homeless men at no cost to them while they transition onto independent living. Provide free soup kitchen to all who choose to come to our door.

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10
Fresh Start Outreach Ministry Inc

It is the mission of Fresh Start Ministry to be the hands and feet of God by serving others in need in Monroe County. we have a mens and womans shelter and a program to help people get back on there feet

Human Services
11
Faithful Servants Ministry

Housing the homeless

Human Services
12
Foothill House of Hospitality Dba Hospitality House

The mission of Hospitality House is tobring homeless people in Nevada County into a circle of community caring thatoffers shelter, sustenance, medical care, advocacy, opportunity, dignity, and hopeas we assist them in transitioning from…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc: $180,000 · Human ServicesMooresville Area Christian Miss…Homestretch Inc: $136,000 · Human ServicesHomestretch Inc+1 more: $1,953 · Human ServicesGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $290,901 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATIONKENYA PARTNERS: $251,906 · InternationalKENYA PARTNERSTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL …STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $42,000 · OtherSTARLIGHT CHILD…Individual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherIndividual gran…OUR TOWNS OF NORTH MECKLENBURG - IREDELL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 · OtherOUR TOWNS OF NO…THYROID CANCER SURVIVORS ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PUR…+2 more: $10,000 · Other+2 moreShelter House Inc: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NASSAU COUNTY FOUNDATION: $35,061 · Youth DevelopmentFEEDNC: $35,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$317,953Philanthropy$290,901International$251,906Other$157,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Youth Development$35,061Food & Nutrition$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $290,901 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKENYA PARTNERS: $251,906 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc: $180,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHomestretch Inc: $136,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShelter House Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NASSAU COUNTY FOUNDATION: $35,061 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFEEDNC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR TOWNS OF NORTH MECKLENBURG - IREDELL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLake of the Woods Adaptive Watersports: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF FALLS CHURCH HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% 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.

American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH12.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Roberts Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roberts Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–20%
    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 17 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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