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Roberts Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sinclair Community College Foundation | $15,000 |
| Morgridge Institute for Research Inc | $15,000 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $10,000 |
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham | $5,000 |
| Sinclair Community College Foundation | $5,000 |
| Dayton Art Institute | $5,000 |
| Carleton College | $5,000 |
| Western Reserve Academy | $2,500 |
| James M Cox Jr Arboretum Foundation | $2,500 |
| Kenyon College | $2,500 |
| Walloon Lake Association and Conservancy | $2,500 |
| Bay View Association of the United Methodist Church | $2,000 |
| Kids in New Directions Inc | $2,000 |
| Petoskey District Library | $1,500 |
| American Associates of the National Theater Inc | $1,500 |
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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- SCSINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +8%
- TMTHE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC2× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +167%
- OHOHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- MIMorgridge Institute for Research Foundationone grant, 2023 · $15k
- SJSt. John's Lutheran Churchone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PFPEO Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +60%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
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…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
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.
Wartburg college is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Lakeland university educates individuals of diverse backgrounds, preparing them to think critically, to communicate effectively, to succeed professionally, and to lead ethical, purposeful, and fulfilling lives. rooted in the values of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Air Force Museum Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The German Society of Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 36 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 SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds WALLOON LAKE ASSOCIATION AND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Kids in New Directions ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES M COX JR ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kansas Lions Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BAY VIEW ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Lane Thomas Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILMA THEATER ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds THE GERMAN SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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: Dayton Foundation Depository · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Kettering Family Foundation · The CareSource Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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.
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