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Robertson Family 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.

$94k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$5.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Robertson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationReligionHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$94k42%
FY202417$232k47%
FY202314$322k36%
FY202219$277k74%
FY202120$391k50%
FY202014$174k50%
FY20196$310k17%
FY201813$89k54%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$862kHealth$462kEducation$413kSocial Science$105kHuman Services$68kInternational$55kCommunity Improvement$49kAnimals$31kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
NC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of Robertson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Autism Action Partnership$413,25499%
Creighton University$105,02460%
Platte Institute for Economic Research Inc$104,76592%
The Seminar Network Inc$91,86010%
Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Foundation$48,84021%
Samaritan's Purse$45,17210%
Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha$35,00021%
University of Nebraska Foundation$30,00030%
Vss Catholic Communications Inc$25,00040%
Retrieving Freedom Inc$21,00021%
Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House$20,00020%
Alpha USA$20,00010%
Nebraska Family Alliance Inc$20,00022%
Food Bank for the Heartland$15,50020%
National Forest Foundation$10,00010%
Educate Uganda$10,00011%
Mater Filius of Nebraska Inc$10,00012%
Cues School System$10,0001n/a
Assure Womens Center$10,00010%
Completely Kids$7,00010%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$6,0002n/a
American Heart Association Inc$5,00020%
Institute for Priestly Formation Inc$5,0003n/a
Madonna School and Community Based Services$5,0001n/a
Christ Child Society of Omaha Nebraska$3,00020%
Stuttering Association for the Young Inc$2,00010%
100 Black Men of Omaha Inc$2,00010%
Hope Center for Kids Inc$1,50010%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Servants of Mary$1,0001n/a
Turning Point USA Inc$1,00010%
Chicano Awareness Center Inc$1,00010%
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc$1,00010%
Parkinson's Nebraska$6001n/a
Project Harmony$50010%
Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc$50010%
City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robertson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAutism Action Partnership: $413,254 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetCreighton University: $105,024 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlatte Institute for Economic Research Inc: $104,765 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetThe Seminar Network Inc: $91,860 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKnights of Ak-Sar-Ben Foundation: $48,840 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $45,172 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Scholarship Fund of Omaha: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVss Catholic Communications Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRetrieving Freedom Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOpen Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha USA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNebraska Family Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFood Bank for the Heartland: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Forest Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducate Uganda: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMater Filius of Nebraska Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAssure Womens Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCompletely Kids: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Child Society of Omaha Nebraska: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetStuttering Association for the Young Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget100 Black Men of Omaha Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHope Center for Kids Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicano Awareness Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Harmony: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 31.

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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.

The Charles and Mary Heider Family FoundationNE28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Seline Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Alan & Marcia Baer Foundation · The Dorothy B Davis Foundation · Cl Werner Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks 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 Robertson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robertson Family Foundation 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 Robertson Family Foundation

How much does Robertson Family Foundation give?
Robertson Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $93,835 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robertson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Health (22%), Education (19%).
Who are Robertson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Autism Action Partnership ($413k), Creighton University ($105k), Platte Institute for Economic Research Inc ($105k).
Does Robertson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robertson Family Foundation 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 Robertson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation, Seline Family Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
Where is Robertson Family Foundation based?
Robertson Family Foundation is based in NE.

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 70 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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