· Private foundation
Roberts Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION | $45,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BOONE COUNTY | $35,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOONE COUNTY | $30,000 |
| IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER | $25,000 |
| DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER | $20,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS | $15,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY MENTORING PARTNERS | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $10,000 |
| HUSSEY-MAYFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Roberts Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -11% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BGBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF BOONE COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $278k · revenue +40%
- BCBoone County Mentoring Partnership Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue -31%
- BLBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP4× · 2020–2024 · $185k · revenue +273%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BOONE COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -15%
- IUIPSBUTLER UNIVERSITY LABORATROY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $35k
- FIFood Insecurity & Relief Solutions Todayone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -88%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in boone county
Provide childcare and high-quality programming for children in boone county.
Big brothers big sisters of utah's vision is that all children achieve success in life. our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
To promote equal access to justice for all indiana residents regardless of economic status
To create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Beacon, inc, (beacon) is a solutions-driven, anti-poverty nonprofit, dedicated to aiding and empowering people experiencing extreme poverty, especially hunger and homelessness. based in bloomington, in, beacon provides six core programs;…
Consolidated county-wide effort to benefit the various organizations listed in statement 2.
The mission of the fair housing center of central indiana (fhcci) is to facilitate open housing for all people by ensuring the availability of affordable and accessible housing; promoting housing choice and homeownership; advocating for an…
Provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Boone County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Food Insecurity & Relief Solutions Today. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF BOONE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BOONE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Boone County Mentoring Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BOONE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Food Insecurity & Relief Solutions Today ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds DeKalb County History Center ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR YOUTH INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation of Boone County Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · The Clowes Fund Incorporated · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Roberts Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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