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Robertson Family Fund 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.

$360k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$832kScience & Tech$491kArts & Culture$326kEnvironment$235kAnimals$213kHuman Services$136kInternational$110kHealth$106kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $209k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories$67,500
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital$50,000
Individual grant recipient$32,000
Owl Research Institute$30,000
Save The Children$25,000
Stowe Land Trust$20,000
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE$12,000
Palm Beach Symphony$10,000
PAMC Foundation$10,000
Earth Lab SF$10,000
Youth Community$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Jabuticaba Productions$10,000
SAGE$10,000
Democracy Now$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Seventh Generation Fund: $10k → 18%Seventh Generation Fund: $7k → 18%Hively: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NM
TN
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 39 repeat orgs$546k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
46

Total granted

$2.2M
$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+11%

Still filing today

59%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OR
    OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +44%
  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $155k · revenue +10%
  • BF
    BERKELEY FILM FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $102k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • PU
    Prnceton University
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment
4
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Conservation X Labs Inc

To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.

Animals
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Oceanic Preservation Society

Expose the truth. protect the planet. we expose complex, global environmental issues and promote advocacy through the use of film, photography, social media, and collaboration.

Environment
9
School for Field Studies Inc

Sfs creates transformative study abroad experiences through field-based learning and research. our educational programs explore the human and ecological dimensions of the complex environmental problems faced by our local partners,…

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10
San Francisco Estuary Institute

Provide scientific support and tools for decision making and communication through collaborative efforts.

Environment
11
The Institute for Bird Populations

The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.

Animals
12
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stowe Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is The Hartford Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
34/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories: $296,000 · OtherCold Spring Harbor LaboratoriesOWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $160,000 · OtherOWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCRegents Of University of California: $145,870 · OtherRegents Of University of CaliforniaPrnceton University: $100,000 · OtherPrnceton UniversitySave The Children: $95,000 · OtherSave The ChildrenUSDN: $85,000 · OtherSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $82,000 · Other+54 more: $708,818 · Other+54 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $275,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMB…KENT SCHOOL: $87,500 · EducationKENT SCHOOLALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $85,000 · EducationALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT …ACCE Institute: $25,000 · EducationTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $27,000 · EducationBERKELEY FILM FOUNDATION: $102,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY FI…DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY N…THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $57,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BE…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureEarth Lab SF: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJABUTICABA PRODUCTIONS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $25,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $155,000 · Science & TechFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC: $52,000 · Science & TechSTOWE LAND TRUST: $52,000 · EnvironmentCAUMSETT FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentLAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC: $29,500 · EnvironmentURBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK: $20,000 · EnvironmentPlanting Justice: $5,000 · EnvironmentWild Dolphin Project Inc: $32,500 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $15,000 · AnimalsGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP: $20,000 · PhilanthropyRS Events for Life Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHartford Family Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,672,688Education$594,500Arts & Culture$292,000Science & Tech$207,000Environment$146,500Animals$47,500Philanthropy$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $275,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $160,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $155,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY FILM FOUNDATION: $102,000 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetKENT SCHOOL: $87,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $82,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $75,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $57,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSTOWE LAND TRUST: $52,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAUMSETT FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetWild Dolphin Project Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $29,550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC: $29,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetACCE Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR MARINE EDUCATION & RECREATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Lab SF: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGlobal Food Justice Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRS Events for Life Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJABUTICABA PRODUCTIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSTOWE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS INC: $9,500 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetTHE CURRENT INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Family Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Pacifica Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIVELY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA SCORES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPlanting Justice: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,040 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLava Mae: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOWE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetREDWOOD DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSalvation Farms Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMOILLE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds BERKELEY FILM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds STOWE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAUMSETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Wild Dolphin Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCE Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR MARINE EDUCATION & RECREATION ↗
  • Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗

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.

Lintilhac Foundation …The Vermont Community…The New York Communit…James E Robison Found…Oakland Foundation IncNational Life Group C…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The James Irvine Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
Lintilhac Foundation IncVT15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lintilhac Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · James E Robison Foundation · Oakland Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robertson Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robertson Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Lamoille Community House Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Salvation Farms Inc: 26% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Stowe Land Trust: 10% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Oceanographic Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Robertson Family Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Robertson Family Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 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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