· Private foundation
Robertson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $512k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $313k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTLAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $200,000 |
| FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION | $63,000 |
| RENEWANATION | $50,000 |
| SPCA OF MARTINSVILLE HENRY CO | $39,169 |
| CARILION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| RESTORATION HOUSING | $30,000 |
| SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FRANKLIN CO | $21,000 |
| HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA | $20,000 |
| ESTEAMED COFFEE | $18,468 |
| RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,125 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| LOCAL OFFICE ON AGING | $15,000 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $278k · revenue +242%- RRENEWANATION5× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +42%
- HSHEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA8× · 2018–2025 · $168k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE SWVAone grant, 2024 · $32k
- THTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +400%
- SPSECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
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.
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.
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…
Provide a structured, supportive, supervised and enrichment environment for the elderly at a low cost to the participants and their families.
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…
Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia
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.
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…
Rockbridge Recovery supports individuals, families, and communities touched by addictive behaviors through support from peers, prevention, and education.
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
To provide assistance to improve the quality of life for persons with intellectual disabilities, mental illness or substance abuse.
How this is measured
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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 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 THE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Smith Mt Lake Christian Academy Inc ↗
- 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 BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE OF GOD ANNEX OUTREACH CENTER ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robertson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robertson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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