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Robertson Foundation

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.

$105M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
256
Grants FY2024
184
Organizations funded FY2023
53%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$21,000,000
Organizations funded a year
132 to 184
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
24
Total assets, FY2024
$301M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Robertson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & 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
FY2024still arriving220$75M45%
FY2023184$73M53%
FY2022163$76M36%
FY2021132$86M25%
FY2020145$86M34%
FY2019154$80Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$194MEnvironment$144MHealth$98MHuman Services$12MPhilanthropy$9.8MYouth Development$9.4MCommunity Improvement$9.1MAnimals$8.5MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 381 grantees
All grantees of Robertson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc$57,781,095645%
Success Academy Charter Schools Inc$56,000,000611%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$51,000,00066%
The Robertson Scholars Leadership Program$40,951,031584%
The Rockefeller University$29,100,00061%
Earthjustice$14,529,13363%
United States Energy Foundation$14,000,00042%
Cancer Research Institute Inc$12,075,000611%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$11,405,00062%
Americans for Oxford Inc$9,720,16565%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$8,745,37530%
The Wilderness Society$8,250,00065%
The Bridgespan Group Inc$7,359,00028%
Rocky Mountain Institute$7,000,00042%
The Broad Institute Inc$6,750,00040%
Imentor Inc$5,925,000515%
Ocean Conservancy$5,277,00043%
Oceana Inc$5,027,00053%
Wildlife Conservation Society$4,987,50061%
Regulatory Assistance Project$4,875,000515%
Southern Environmental Law Center$4,500,00044%
Classical Charter Schools$4,125,00064%
Teach for All Inc$4,000,00034%
Teach for America Inc$3,015,00040%
Panthera Corporation$3,000,00045%
The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia$3,000,00023%
The Energy Foundation$3,000,00012%
Mary's Meals USA Inc$2,690,00059%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$2,520,00050%
C F Foundation Inc$2,303,3331n/a
African Leadership Foundation$2,302,000317%
Pave Schools Inc$1,865,000341%
Communities in Schools$1,330,00023%
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History$1,310,00054%
City Squash Inc$1,278,500613%
Refed Inc$1,275,00028%
Philanthropy New York Inc$1,250,000115%
Meridian Institute$1,206,25014%
Climateworks Foundation$1,000,00010%
Capital for Good USA$1,000,000111%
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$995,00020%
Hollins University Corporation$992,91060%
World Resources Institute$750,00010%
Kent School$720,00051%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$700,0001n/a
The Boys' Club of New York$676,50062%
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc$620,00053%
Saint Marys School$600,00012%
Squash and Education Alliance Inc$532,00059%
Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc$500,00011%
Transcend Inc$500,00012%
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$500,00011%
Plant Based Foods Institute$500,000138%
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc$500,00011%
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc$400,24263%
American Museum of Natural History$400,00040%
Movement Strategy Center$334,00011%
Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition$320,000610%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$284,8754n/a
Fund for the City of New York Inc$277,00040%
Redeemer City To City$266,9211n/a
Lupus Research Alliance Inc$250,00011%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$237,00050%
Saint Edward's School Inc$230,00050%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$197,00060%
Friends of the Everglades Inc$183,803610%
St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc$175,00042%
Portland Community Squash$175,00033%
National Outdoor Leadership School$175,00020%
Johns Hopkins University$160,00050%
Brunswick School Inc$157,50020%
Saint Ann's School$155,00030%
New Life of New York City Inc$150,000212%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$145,00020%
The Chapin School Ltd$145,00060%
Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation$140,00022%
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$140,00020%
St Thomas Episcopal Church$130,0004n/a
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$130,00060%
Trustees of Deerfield Academy$127,50060%
The University of North Carolina Press Inc$125,00051%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$122,75060%
Islamorada Foundation Inc$120,910620%
Good Shepherd Services$117,75030%
Saint Marys Hall Inc$117,42510%
The Population Council Inc$110,00060%
Education Resource Strategies Inc$100,00011%
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc$100,00021%
National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction Inc$100,00042%
Sierra Club Foundation$100,00060%
Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc$100,00021%
Hampton Classic Horse Show Inc$100,00012%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$95,00060%
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$85,00030%
The Southampton Fresh Air Home$84,50052%
Young Life$75,00020%
Read to Lead Inc$75,00031%
The Bridge Golf Foundation$75,00032%
Children of God Relief Fund Inc$70,00064%
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc$70,00040%
Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc$70,00020%
Idaho Base Camp Inc$70,00052%
East Lake Foundationinc$64,00030%
McKee Botanical Garden Inc$62,50051%
Childcare Resources of Indian River Inc$60,00031%
Vero Beach Museum of Art Inc$60,00040%
The Kansas University Endowment Association$60,00010%
Pave Academy Charter School$60,00020%
The James C Ferrer Educational Fundinc (Formerly Shinnecock Hills Educational )$57,00056%
International Game Fish Association Inc$55,00060%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$50,00060%
Whitney Museum of American Art$50,00020%
On Course Foundation USA$50,00014%
Riverside Theatre Inc$50,00030%
Focused Ultrasound Foundation$50,00030%
Museum of Modern Art$50,00020%
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc$50,00020%
Lynn University Inc$47,50060%
University of Pittsburgh$46,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$45,00040%
Saint David's School$45,00030%
St Lukes Episcopal Church$45,0001n/a
Historic Salisbury Foundation Inc$45,00046%
Indian Mountain School Inc$42,50060%
University of North Carolina at Chapel H Arts & Sciences Foundation$40,00020%
Studentsponsor Partners Inc$35,00020%
WholeSchool Mindfulness Inc$35,00023%
New York City Center Inc$35,00020%
Southampton Playhouse Inc$35,00012%
Church of Our Saviour$34,0003n/a
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C$32,5005n/a
Rise Southeast Raleigh Charter School Inc$32,50030%
Indian River Lacrosse Association Inc$30,000216%
The Boot Campaign Inc$30,00021%
Higher Ed Works$30,00022%
Old Westbury Gardens Inc$30,0002n/a
The Rogosin Institute Inc$30,00020%
St Anthony Foundation$28,0003n/a
Lake Agawam Conservancy Inc$27,50044%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$25,00010%
A House in Austin$25,00053%
Convent of the Sacred Heart$25,0001n/a
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc$25,00050%
The Actors' Fund of America$25,00020%
The Country School Incorporated$25,00040%
Franklin & Marshall College$25,00010%
Renewing Hope Inc$25,000142%
United States Squash Racquets Assoc Inc$25,00020%
Catholic Schools Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Strive International Inc$25,00010%
Kipp Foundation$22,00020%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$20,00030%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$20,00020%
564 Park Avenue Preservation Foundation$20,00021%
Kiin Beh Education Center Foundation Inc$20,00022%
Child Mind Institute Inc$20,00030%
Opportunity Labs Foundation Inc$20,00011%
United States Fund for Unicef$20,00010%
Junior Tennis Foundation Inc$20,000210%
Utmd Anderson$20,0001n/a
The Learning Alliance Inc$20,00010%
Float Hope of Indian River County Inc$20,00018%
Carolina Tiger Rescue$20,00011%
St Luke's Wood River Medical Center Ltd$18,99510%
Islamorada Firefighters Benevolent Asso$17,50058%
Guides Trust Foundation Inc$17,50047%
Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation Inc$17,50040%
Reach Prep Inc$17,50011%
Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc$16,00042%
Rare Cancer Research Foundation$15,00011%
Family Centers Inc$15,00010%
The Children's Aid Society$15,00010%
Swedish Seamens Church$15,0002n/a
New Zealand Olympic Committee America Inc$15,00013%
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc$15,00010%
New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc$15,00011%
Cathedral Church of St John the Divine$15,0002n/a
Summit Area Young Men's Christian Association a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$15,00010%
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System$15,0001n/a
Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc$15,00020%
Inter-Faith Council for Social Service Inc$15,00030%
Razom Inc$15,00010%
Silver Creek Alliance Inc$15,00016%
Ascend Learning Inc$14,00020%
Red Hook Initiative$13,50030%
Brooklyn to Alaska Project$13,41013%
School of Leadership-Afghanistan Inc$13,41010%
Southampton Soccer Club$13,00022%
Green Vale School$13,00040%
Bronx Lacrosse Inc Co Ota$12,50011%
Exodus School$12,50011%
Stokes Foundation$12,5001n/a
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$12,00020%
Steel City Squash Inc$12,00030%
Greenwich Hospital$11,00020%
Kent Place School$10,00010%
Caring for Military Families the Elizabeth Dole Foundation$10,00010%
Indian River Soccer Associationinc$10,00012%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater New Haven Inc$10,00010%
University of Utah$10,0001n/a
Florida Keys History and Discovery Foundation Inc$10,00012%
Bobby Jones Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation$10,00021%
New York City Police Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Stony Brook Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc$10,00010%
Pan Am Historical Foundation Inc$10,00014%
Northwell Health Foundation$10,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Indian River County Inc$10,00010%
Grace - Giving and Receiving Assistance for Our Community's Essentials Inc$10,00012%
More Perfect Union Foundation$10,00010%
Bayou District Foundation$10,00020%
Rappu Inc$10,00014%
National Audubon Society Inc$10,00010%
Publicolor Inc$10,00010%
The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc$10,00011%
Old Friends Inc$10,00010%
Peyback Foundation Inc$10,00011%
USTA Florida Section Foundation Inc$10,00015%
B Robert Williamson Jr Foundation$10,00013%
Historical Halifax Restoration Assn$10,000121%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$10,00010%
Thorn$10,00010%
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc$10,00020%
Davidson College$10,00010%
New York Insight Inc$10,00011%
Boys Club of Wake County Inc$9,50030%
A Better Chance Inc$9,50020%
Partnership to End Addiction$9,50030%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York$9,00010%
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$8,00030%
Human Impacts Institute Inc$8,00023%
The Greenwich Land Trust Inc$8,00020%
The Surfrider Foundation$8,00010%
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative$8,00020%
Ira Sohn Conference Foundation Inc$7,50020%
Pennys Flight Foundation Inc$7,50020%
El Puente de Williamsburg Inc$7,00010%
Rogers Memorial Library Foundation$7,000134%
Hamptons Community Outreach Inc$7,00010%
Maureens Haven Inc$7,00011%
The Hamptons Health Society Inc$7,00014%
The Western Youth Network Inc$6,00020%
Sages Theater Inc$6,00022%
The Armory Foundation$6,00020%
Riverhead Charter School$6,00020%
Project Big Wood a Nonprofit Corporation$6,00012%
Italian American Womens Center Inc$6,0002n/a
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$5,50020%
Sun River Health Inc$5,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich$5,00010%
Upwell Turtles$5,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$5,00010%
Hearts Around the World Inc$5,000115%
Spanish Dance Arts Co Inc$5,00020%
Bluffton Self Help Inc$5,00010%
Room to Grow National Inc$5,00010%
Save Venice Inc$5,00010%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Music Haven Inc$5,00010%
Southampton Youth Services Inc$5,00010%
Dth Media Corporation$5,00011%
YWCA Greenwich Connecticut Inc$5,00010%
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Brooklyn Public Library$5,00010%
Ocean Research & Conservation Association Inc$5,00010%
Center for Supportive Schools Inc$5,00010%
Greenwich Historical Society Inc$5,00010%
Indian River Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc$5,00028%
Lines in the Lagoon Inc$5,0001n/a
Old Oaks Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Public Health Solutions$5,00010%
Guilford Center For Children Inc$5,00010%
Vero Beach Police Benevolent Assn Inc$5,000116%
Grace Science Foundation$5,00010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$5,00010%
Hamptons United$5,00018%
Kipp North Carolina$5,00010%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$5,00010%
The Apostles' House$4,50020%
New Jersey Tree Foundation$4,50020%
The Battery Conservancy Inc$4,00010%
Associated Humane Societies Inc$4,00020%
Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club at Lincoln House Inc$4,00020%
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc$4,00010%
The Lyford Cay Club Charitable Trust Inc$4,0001n/a
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc$4,00020%
Heights & Hills Inc$3,50020%
Ruth's Refuge Inc$3,50021%
Christ Church$3,5001n/a
Feeding Southwest Virginia$3,50020%
Make the Road New York$3,50010%
Brain Tumor Foundation$3,00012%
Christ Episcopal Church$3,0001n/a
Edward Charles Foundation$3,00010%
New York Botanical Garden$3,00010%
Breakthrough T1d$3,00010%
Oakland Literacy Coalition Inc$3,00010%
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace$3,00010%
Bunk22 Inc$3,0001n/a
Gunks Climbers Coalition$3,00025%
Center for Strategic and International Studies$3,00010%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$3,00010%
Moulton Memorial Baptist Church$3,0001n/a
The Animal Medical Center$2,50010%
Bloomagainbklyn Inc$2,50011%
Usga Foundation$2,50010%
School of American Ballet Inc$2,50010%
Sisters Pgh Corp$2,50010%
New York School of Interior Design$2,50010%
First Tee Greater Charleston$2,50010%
Covenant House$2,50010%
City Lax Inc$2,50012%
Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools$2,50010%
Degregorio Family Foundation Inc$2,50010%
New Heights Youth Inc$2,50010%
Baltimore Safe Haven Corp$2,30010%
Transgender Emergency Fund of Ma Inc$2,2001n/a
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$2,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$2,00010%
AMHERST MALE GLEE CLUB INC DBA Red Blazer Men's Chorus$2,00022%
Cadman Park Conservancy$2,0002n/a
Opencollective Foundation$2,00010%
Learningspring School$2,00010%
Coleman Christensen Memorial Fund$2,0001n/a
Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Brooklyn Book Bodega Inc$2,00020%
Indian River County Volunteer Ambulance Squad Inc$2,0001n/a
Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center Inc$2,00010%
Youth Alive$2,00010%
Enterprising Latinas Inc$2,00020%
Vision Ed Inc$2,00010%
New York City Climbing Collective Incorporated$2,0001n/a
Row New York Inc$2,00010%
World Childhood Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Cope Foundation Inc$2,00010%
The Episcopal School in the City of New York$2,00010%
Vinegar Hill Food Pantry Inc$2,00021%
Children of Promise NYC$2,00020%
Robin Hood Foundation$2,00010%
Brooklyn Heights Association Inc$2,00020%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$1,75010%
Hortulus Inc$1,50012%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$1,50010%
West Side Center for Community Life$1,50010%
Dorrance Dance Incorporated$1,50010%
Community Bots Inc$1,5001n/a
Wytheville Community College Educational Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Safe Horizon Inc$1,20010%
Ukraine House DC Foundation Inc$1,20010%
Dance to Unite Inc$1,10011%
The Butterfly Effect Project Inc$1,00011%
Red Hook Art Project Inc$1,00010%
Play Groundnyc Inc$1,00010%
Triangle Golf Foundation Inc Dba the First Tee of the Triangle$1,00010%
American Near East Refugee Aid$1,00010%
Abundance Academy of the Arts Inc$1,00011%
Mid Hudson Animal Aid Inc$1,00010%
New Neighbors Partnership Association$1,00010%
Backyard Players & Friends Inc$1,00010%
Streetsquash Inc$1,00010%
Greater Newark Conservancy Inc$1,00010%
Charity Global Inc$1,00010%
Musicares Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Wytheville Community College$1,0001n/a
Cuny School of Professional Studies Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Let's Get Ready Inc$1,00010%
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy$1,00010%
Fordham Preparatory School$1,0001n/a
Brooklyn Friends School$1,0001n/a
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation$1,00010%
America's Adopt a Soldier$1,0001n/a
Jewish Center of the Hamptons$1,0001n/a
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$1,00010%
Willett Free Library$1,00011%
African Mission Healthcare Foundation$1,00010%
The Jazz Gallery$1,00010%
The Children's Hospital Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Queens Library Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$1,00010%
Haitian Global Health Alliance$80010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 111 recipients with no EIN on record ($49M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Robertson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York STEM Cell Foundation Inc: $57,781,095 over 6y, 45% of budgetSuccess Academy Charter Schools Inc: $56,000,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $51,000,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetThe Robertson Scholars Leadership Program: $40,951,031 over 5y, 84% of budgetThe Rockefeller University: $29,100,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetEarthjustice: $14,529,133 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetUnited States Energy Foundation: $14,000,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCancer Research Institute Inc: $12,075,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $11,405,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAmericans for Oxford Inc: $9,720,165 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $8,745,375 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $8,250,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetThe Bridgespan Group Inc: $7,359,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $7,000,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $6,750,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetImentor Inc: $5,925,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $5,277,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetOceana Inc: $5,027,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $4,987,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRegulatory Assistance Project: $4,875,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $4,500,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetClassical Charter Schools: $4,125,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetTeach for All Inc: $4,000,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $3,015,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPanthera Corporation: $3,000,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetThe Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia: $3,000,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetThe Energy Foundation: $3,000,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMary's Meals USA Inc: $2,690,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $2,520,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAfrican Leadership Foundation: $2,302,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPave Schools Inc: $1,865,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetCommunities in Schools: $1,330,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: $1,310,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $1,278,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetRefed Inc: $1,275,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetPhilanthropy New York Inc: $1,250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMeridian Institute: $1,206,250 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetClimateworks Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCapital for Good USA: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $995,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHollins University Corporation: $992,910 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Resources Institute: $750,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKent School: $720,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Boys' Club of New York: $676,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc: $620,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSaint Marys School: $600,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSquash and Education Alliance Inc: $532,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetNuclear Threat Initiative Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 200.

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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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY36.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Chase and Stephanie Coleman Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Moore Charitable Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Ainslie Foundation · Acquavella Family Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community 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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About Robertson Foundation

How much does Robertson Foundation give?
Robertson Foundation reported 256 grants totaling $105,166,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 132 and 184 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Robertson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Environment (28%), Health (19%).
Who are Robertson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc ($58M), Success Academy Charter Schools Inc ($56M), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($51M).
Does Robertson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robertson 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 Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
Where is Robertson Foundation based?
Robertson Foundation 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 505 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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