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Roberts Foundation 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.

$62k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 60
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$124k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Roberts Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$62k16%
FY202317$47k18%
FY202228$42k0%
FY202117$34k18%
FY202052$30k2%
FY201959$20k2%
FY201858$23k7%
FY201760$28kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$76kAnimals$57kInternational$35kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$18kHousing & Shelter$14kEducation$14kPhilanthropy$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 52 grantees
All grantees of Roberts Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Freedom Service Dogs Inc$13,70080%
Animal Haven Inc$13,00080%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$12,10080%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$12,00040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$11,30060%
Alley Cat Allies Inc$8,40080%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$8,27570%
Save The Children Federation Inc$7,65070%
Puppies Behind Bars Inc$6,80070%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$6,20070%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$5,85060%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$5,00050%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$5,00010%
The Actors' Fund of America$4,47560%
Building Homes for Heroes Inc$4,40050%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$4,20050%
Samaritan's Purse$4,00010%
Mercury One Inc$4,00010%
Project Sunshine Inc$3,50050%
Operation Homefront Inc$3,00010%
K9s for Warriors Inc$3,00010%
City Harvest Inc$2,90050%
Travis Manion Foundation$2,80050%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$2,70030%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$2,70050%
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc$2,60050%
Special Olympics Inc$2,50050%
4 Paws for Ability Inc$2,50040%
Covenant House$2,50050%
Robin Hood Foundation$2,10040%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$2,10040%
Christian Herald Association Inc$2,00040%
Operation Gratitude Inc$2,00040%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,97540%
Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc$1,90040%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc$1,80040%
Asha for Education$1,80040%
Bideawee Inc$1,75040%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$1,70040%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$1,60040%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,50030%
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc$1,44040%
Gary Sinise Foundation$1,40030%
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc$1,30030%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$1,05040%
Avenues for Justice Inc$1,00030%
Project Home$93020%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$85030%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$61020%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$60010%
Ready for Rescue$50010%
The Children's Aid Society$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roberts Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFreedom Service Dogs Inc: $13,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Haven Inc: $13,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $12,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $11,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $8,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $8,275 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $7,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPuppies Behind Bars Inc: $6,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $6,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless Inc: $5,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $4,475 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Homes for Heroes Inc: $4,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercury One Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Sunshine Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Homefront Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $2,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budget4 Paws for Ability Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Gratitude Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,975 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warriors Family Support Inc: $1,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAsha for Education: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBideawee Inc: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Theatre Foundation Inc: $1,440 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAvenues for Justice Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Home: $930 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 52.

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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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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How do I get to Roberts Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Roberts Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Roberts Foundation Inc

How much does Roberts Foundation Inc give?
Roberts Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $62,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Roberts Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Animals (20%), International (12%).
Who are Roberts Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Freedom Service Dogs Inc ($14k), Animal Haven Inc ($13k), Citymeals-On-Wheels ($12k).
Does Roberts Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Roberts Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Roberts Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Roberts Foundation Inc based?
Roberts Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 76 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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