· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Roberts Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -11% since the first grant, against -15% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roberts Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roberts Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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