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Robertson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$879k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of ROBERTSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $512k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $313k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTLAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH$200,000
FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION$63,000
RENEWANATION$50,000
SPCA OF MARTINSVILLE HENRY CO$39,169
RESTORATION HOUSING$30,000
CARILION FOUNDATION$30,000
SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FRANKLIN CO$21,000
HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA$20,000
ESTEAMED COFFEE$18,468
RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER$15,125
GODS PIT CREW$15,000
LOCAL OFFICE ON AGING$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $821k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SOUTHERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $18k → 17%MADE 4 ME: $10k → 8%MADE 4 ME: $10k → 8%MADE 4 ME: $10k → 8%TURN THE PAGE: $10k → 8%ESTEAMED COFFEE: $18k → 8%COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE: $10k → 17%AGAPE CENTER: $30k → 8%SOUTHERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 17%AGAPE CENTER: $30k → 8%AGAPE CENTER: $29k → 8%ALDERSON MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 18%AGAPE CENTER: $13k → 8%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 18%LOCAL OFFICE ON AGING: $12k → 8%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 18%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $16k → 18%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 18%LOCAL OFFICE ON AGING: $10k → 8%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 18%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $14k → 18%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 18%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 18%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 18%ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $25k → 8%SHEPHERD'S CENTER GREENBRIER VALLEY: $15k → 18%ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $15k → 8%SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY: $15k → 18%ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $15k → 8%UNITED WAY OF GREENBRIER VALLEY: $13k → 18%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROANOKE: $10k → 20%SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY: $10k → 18%ADULT CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $10k → 8%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $10k → 18%ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $10k → 8%ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $10k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE: $25k → 20%RESCUE MISSION OR ROANOKE: $25k → 20%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE: $20k → 20%RESCUE MISSION OR ROANOKE: $15k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 90 repeat orgs$614k to everyone else

90 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
57

Total granted

$4.6M
$507k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+59%

Still filing today

62%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $278k · revenue +242%
  • R
    RENEWANATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +42%
  • HS
    HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $168k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE SWVA
    one grant, 2024 · $32k
  • SP
    SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TH
    TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +400%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ywca of Central Virginia

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.

Human Services
2
Roanoke Gospel Outreach Center Inc

The center provides religious, educational, and charitable services including distributing clothing, refreshments, toys, gifts and religious instruction to the homeless and low income citizens of the community.

Religion
3
Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.

Human Services
4
Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke Inc

SWVA Wildlife Center's mission is to conserve Virginia's wildlife through rehabilitation and release while teaching care and respect of native species. We advocate for the protection of wildlife and wild places to ensure these magnificent…

Animals
5
South Richmond Adult Day Care Center

Provide a structured, supportive, supervised and enrichment environment for the elderly at a low cost to the participants and their families.

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6
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
7
Rockbridge Christmas Basket Inc

Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia

Human Services
8
New River Family Shelter Inc

To provide safe emergency and transitional shelter throughout the New River Valley connecting families with supportive services that empower them to make behavioral changes that promote self sufficiency and stability.

Human Services
9
Virginias One Church One Child Inc

Our mission is to reduce the numbers of children in the foster care system through adoption outreach education recruitment and support. We seek to increase permanency opportunities for Virginias waiting children. Additionally we aim to…

Human Services
10
Rockbridge Recovery

Rockbridge Recovery supports individuals, families, and communities touched by addictive behaviors through support from peers, prevention, and education.

Health
11
Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter
12
Valley Area Community Support Inc Dba Valley Supportive Housing

To provide assistance to improve the quality of life for persons with intellectual disabilities, mental illness or substance abuse.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisability Advocacy and Sup…Faith-Based Community Suppo…Youth Development Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Charter and Independent Sch…Youth & Community Sports Le…Youth Education & Civic Eng…Private Recreational ClubsFood Banks and Hunger ReliefRegional Chambers of Commer…Educational Institution Fou…Roanoke Regional DevelopmentPerforming Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%1%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr14%33%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr12%11%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/97
the rest of the field
14%
1,260/9,267

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.

04the grantee network

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 157 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/85
Grantees still filing
60/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EASTLAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH — $375,000 · OtherEASTLAKE COMMUNITY CHURCHHEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA — $167,500 · OtherHEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIASPCA OF MARTINSVILLE HENRY CO — $130,669 · Other+105 more — $2,363,722 · Other+105 moreRENICK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $116,786 · Human ServicesRENICK COMMUNITY CE…AGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC — $101,740 · Human ServicesAGAPE CENTER CORPOR…ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesADULT CARE CENTER O…THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESCUE MISSION …SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS — $80,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS SERVI…LOCAL OFFICE ON AGING — $60,900 · Human ServicesLOCAL OFFICE ON AGI…SHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY — $50,000 · Human ServicesSHEPHERDS CENTER OF…ESTEAMED COFFEE INC — $30,368 · Human ServicesMade4me — $30,000 · Human Services+18 more — $222,592 · Human Services+18 moreFRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC — $278,304 · EducationFRANKIE LEMMO…RENEWANATION — $180,000 · EducationRENEWANATIONSmith Mt Lake Christian Academy Inc — $75,000 · EducationSmith Mt Lake…BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationBEAUFORT COUN…West End Center Inc — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $8,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC — $87,000 · PhilanthropyRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyEAGLES WINGS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN ACTION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY — $20,000 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC — $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $4,531 · PhilanthropyRX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP — $90,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC — $65,000 · HealthFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF VA — $10,000 · HealthHOPE TO WALK INC — $10,000 · HealthGREENSBORO CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION INC — $7,225 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO — $96,516 · AnimalsTHE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $75,000 · Animals+1 more — $4,000 · AnimalsGODS PIT CREW INC — $124,975 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$3,036,891Human Services$872,386Education$616,304Philanthropy$186,531Health$184,725Animals$175,516Public Safety & Disaster$124,975

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC — $278,304 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetRENEWANATION — $180,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA — $167,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC — $124,975 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRENICK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $116,786 over 8y, 12% of budgetAGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC — $101,740 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO — $96,516 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $95,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetRX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP — $90,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC — $87,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS — $80,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSmith Mt Lake Christian Academy Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $75,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC — $71,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL OFFICE ON AGING — $60,900 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC — $51,258 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY — $50,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetBEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetWELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC — $47,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetRoanoke Area Ministries — $47,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY — $46,808 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPURPOSE OF GOD ANNEX OUTREACH CENTER — $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetRESTORATION HOUSING INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $38,684 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $36,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetESTEAMED COFFEE INC — $30,368 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEAGLES WINGS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN ACTION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMade4me — $30,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSOUTHERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $28,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY INDUSTRIES INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRenovation Alliance Inc — $26,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetRUTHS HOUSE — $25,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE — $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWest End Center Inc — $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetOpen Door Community Center — $23,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetSalem Area Ecumenical Ministries — $22,500 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $22,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STORE — $20,150 over 3y, 41% of budgetTHE GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RENEWANATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
  • Who funds RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO ↗
  • Who funds ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds RX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds Smith Mt Lake Christian Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL OFFICE ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds FREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC ↗
  • Who funds Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
  • Who funds CHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds PURPOSE OF GOD ANNEX OUTREACH CENTER ↗

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.

Community Foundation …United Way of Virgini…Edgar a Thurman Fdn C…Cartledge Charitable …Carilion Medical Cent…Sam & Marion Golden H…The Newbern FoundationPowell Charitable Fou…The Helen C Cobbs Fou…James a Meador Founda…Elbert H Evelyn J & K…The Allstate Foundati…
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA91.4× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Carilion Medical Center · Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation · The Newbern Foundation · Powell Charitable Foundation · The Helen C Cobbs Foundation · James a Meador Foundation · Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation · The Allstate 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Robertson 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Robertson Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Robertson Family 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 157 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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