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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%
The Energy Foundation$3,000,00012%
Panthera Corporation$3,000,00045%
The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia$3,000,00023%
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%
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc$500,00011%
Transcend Inc$500,00012%
Plant Based Foods Institute$500,000138%
Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc$500,00011%
The Fund for Public Schools 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%
Portland Community Squash$175,00033%
National Outdoor Leadership School$175,00020%
St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc$175,00042%
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%
The Chapin School Ltd$145,00060%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$145,00020%
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$140,00020%
Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation$140,00022%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$130,00060%
St Thomas Episcopal Church$130,0004n/a
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%
Hampton Classic Horse Show Inc$100,00012%
Education Resource Strategies Inc$100,00011%
Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc$100,00021%
National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction Inc$100,00042%
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc$100,00021%
Sierra Club Foundation$100,00060%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$95,00060%
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$85,00030%
The Southampton Fresh Air Home$84,50052%
Read to Lead Inc$75,00031%
The Bridge Golf Foundation$75,00032%
Young Life$75,00020%
Children of God Relief Fund Inc$70,00064%
Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc$70,00020%
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc$70,00040%
Idaho Base Camp Inc$70,00052%
East Lake Foundationinc$64,00030%
McKee Botanical Garden Inc$62,50051%
Pave Academy Charter School$60,00020%
Childcare Resources of Indian River Inc$60,00031%
The Kansas University Endowment Association$60,00010%
Vero Beach Museum of Art Inc$60,00040%
The James C Ferrer Educational Fundinc (Formerly Shinnecock Hills Educational )$57,00056%
International Game Fish Association Inc$55,00060%
Whitney Museum of American Art$50,00020%
Riverside Theatre Inc$50,00030%
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc$50,00020%
Museum of Modern Art$50,00020%
Focused Ultrasound Foundation$50,00030%
On Course Foundation USA$50,00014%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$50,00060%
Lynn University Inc$47,50060%
University of Pittsburgh$46,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$45,00040%
Historic Salisbury Foundation Inc$45,00046%
Saint David's School$45,00030%
St Lukes Episcopal Church$45,0001n/a
Indian Mountain School Inc$42,50060%
University of North Carolina at Chapel H Arts & Sciences Foundation$40,00020%
Studentsponsor Partners Inc$35,00020%
Southampton Playhouse Inc$35,00012%
New York City Center Inc$35,00020%
WholeSchool Mindfulness Inc$35,00023%
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%
Old Westbury Gardens Inc$30,0002n/a
Indian River Lacrosse Association Inc$30,000216%
The Boot Campaign Inc$30,00021%
The Rogosin Institute Inc$30,00020%
Higher Ed Works$30,00022%
St Anthony Foundation$28,0003n/a
Lake Agawam Conservancy Inc$27,50044%
United States Squash Racquets Assoc Inc$25,00020%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$25,00010%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc$25,00050%
Catholic Schools Foundation Inc$25,00010%
A House in Austin$25,00053%
Franklin & Marshall College$25,00010%
Renewing Hope Inc$25,000142%
Strive International Inc$25,00010%
The Country School Incorporated$25,00040%
Convent of the Sacred Heart$25,0001n/a
The Actors' Fund of America$25,00020%
Kipp Foundation$22,00020%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$20,00030%
Utmd Anderson$20,0001n/a
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Float Hope of Indian River County Inc$20,00018%
The Learning Alliance Inc$20,00010%
Opportunity Labs Foundation Inc$20,00011%
Junior Tennis Foundation Inc$20,000210%
Child Mind Institute Inc$20,00030%
Kiin Beh Education Center Foundation Inc$20,00022%
564 Park Avenue Preservation Foundation$20,00021%
Carolina Tiger Rescue$20,00011%
United States Fund for Unicef$20,00010%
St Luke's Wood River Medical Center Ltd$18,99510%
Reach Prep Inc$17,50011%
Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation Inc$17,50040%
Guides Trust Foundation Inc$17,50047%
Islamorada Firefighters Benevolent Asso$17,50058%
Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc$16,00042%
Swedish Seamens Church$15,0002n/a
Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc$15,00020%
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System$15,0001n/a
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Silver Creek Alliance Inc$15,00016%
Rare Cancer Research Foundation$15,00011%
New Zealand Olympic Committee America Inc$15,00013%
Summit Area Young Men's Christian Association a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$15,00010%
The Children's Aid Society$15,00010%
Inter-Faith Council for Social Service Inc$15,00030%
Family Centers Inc$15,00010%
New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc$15,00011%
Cathedral Church of St John the Divine$15,0002n/a
Razom Inc$15,00010%
Ascend Learning Inc$14,00020%
Red Hook Initiative$13,50030%
Brooklyn to Alaska Project$13,41013%
School of Leadership-Afghanistan Inc$13,41010%
Green Vale School$13,00040%
Southampton Soccer Club$13,00022%
Stokes Foundation$12,5001n/a
Bronx Lacrosse Inc Co Ota$12,50011%
Exodus School$12,50011%
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$12,00020%
Steel City Squash Inc$12,00030%
Greenwich Hospital$11,00020%
Florida Keys History and Discovery Foundation Inc$10,00012%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater New Haven Inc$10,00010%
Stony Brook Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Davidson College$10,00010%
Caring for Military Families the Elizabeth Dole Foundation$10,00010%
Peyback Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Northwell Health Foundation$10,00010%
Thorn$10,00010%
Indian River Soccer Associationinc$10,00012%
Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc$10,00010%
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc$10,00020%
Publicolor Inc$10,00010%
Old Friends Inc$10,00010%
Pan Am Historical Foundation Inc$10,00014%
More Perfect Union Foundation$10,00010%
USTA Florida Section Foundation Inc$10,00015%
University of Utah$10,0001n/a
Historical Halifax Restoration Assn$10,000121%
Bobby Jones Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation$10,00021%
New York Insight Inc$10,00011%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$10,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Indian River County Inc$10,00010%
National Audubon Society Inc$10,00010%
Bayou District Foundation$10,00020%
Kent Place School$10,00010%
B Robert Williamson Jr Foundation$10,00013%
New York City Police Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Grace - Giving and Receiving Assistance for Our Community's Essentials Inc$10,00012%
The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc$10,00011%
Rappu Inc$10,00014%
Boys Club of Wake County Inc$9,50030%
Partnership to End Addiction$9,50030%
A Better Chance Inc$9,50020%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York$9,00010%
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative$8,00020%
The Surfrider Foundation$8,00010%
Human Impacts Institute Inc$8,00023%
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$8,00030%
The Greenwich Land Trust Inc$8,00020%
Ira Sohn Conference Foundation Inc$7,50020%
Pennys Flight Foundation Inc$7,50020%
The Hamptons Health Society Inc$7,00014%
Maureens Haven Inc$7,00011%
El Puente de Williamsburg Inc$7,00010%
Hamptons Community Outreach Inc$7,00010%
Rogers Memorial Library Foundation$7,000134%
Sages Theater Inc$6,00022%
Project Big Wood a Nonprofit Corporation$6,00012%
Italian American Womens Center Inc$6,0002n/a
Riverhead Charter School$6,00020%
The Armory Foundation$6,00020%
The Western Youth Network Inc$6,00020%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$5,50020%
Public Health Solutions$5,00010%
Bluffton Self Help Inc$5,00010%
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Indian River Firefighters Benevolent Association Inc$5,00028%
American Heart Association Inc$5,00010%
Brooklyn Public Library$5,00010%
Lines in the Lagoon Inc$5,0001n/a
Guilford Center For Children Inc$5,00010%
Ocean Research & Conservation Association Inc$5,00010%
Sun River Health Inc$5,00010%
Hearts Around the World Inc$5,000115%
Center for Supportive Schools Inc$5,00010%
Room to Grow National Inc$5,00010%
Upwell Turtles$5,00010%
Spanish Dance Arts Co Inc$5,00020%
Old Oaks Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Hamptons United$5,00018%
Dth Media Corporation$5,00011%
Kipp North Carolina$5,00010%
Save Venice Inc$5,00010%
Vero Beach Police Benevolent Assn Inc$5,000116%
Grace Science Foundation$5,00010%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$5,00010%
Southampton Youth Services Inc$5,00010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$5,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich$5,00010%
Greenwich Historical Society Inc$5,00010%
YWCA Greenwich Connecticut Inc$5,00010%
Music Haven Inc$5,00010%
The Apostles' House$4,50020%
New Jersey Tree Foundation$4,50020%
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc$4,00010%
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc$4,00020%
The Battery Conservancy Inc$4,00010%
The Lyford Cay Club Charitable Trust Inc$4,0001n/a
Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club at Lincoln House Inc$4,00020%
Associated Humane Societies Inc$4,00020%
Christ Church$3,5001n/a
Ruth's Refuge Inc$3,50021%
Heights & Hills Inc$3,50020%
Make the Road New York$3,50010%
Feeding Southwest Virginia$3,50020%
Christ Episcopal Church$3,0001n/a
Moulton Memorial Baptist Church$3,0001n/a
Breakthrough T1d$3,00010%
New York Botanical Garden$3,00010%
Bunk22 Inc$3,0001n/a
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace$3,00010%
Gunks Climbers Coalition$3,00025%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$3,00010%
Brain Tumor Foundation$3,00012%
Edward Charles Foundation$3,00010%
Oakland Literacy Coalition Inc$3,00010%
Center for Strategic and International Studies$3,00010%
Usga Foundation$2,50010%
Sisters Pgh Corp$2,50010%
The Animal Medical Center$2,50010%
New York School of Interior Design$2,50010%
Degregorio Family Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools$2,50010%
City Lax Inc$2,50012%
Covenant House$2,50010%
School of American Ballet Inc$2,50010%
Bloomagainbklyn Inc$2,50011%
New Heights Youth Inc$2,50010%
First Tee Greater Charleston$2,50010%
Baltimore Safe Haven Corp$2,30010%
Transgender Emergency Fund of Ma Inc$2,2001n/a
Vision Ed Inc$2,00010%
The Episcopal School in the City of New York$2,00010%
Enterprising Latinas Inc$2,00020%
Learningspring School$2,00010%
Cope Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$2,00010%
New York City Climbing Collective Incorporated$2,0001n/a
Robin Hood Foundation$2,00010%
Brooklyn Book Bodega Inc$2,00020%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$2,00010%
Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc$2,00020%
World Childhood Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Indian River County Volunteer Ambulance Squad Inc$2,0001n/a
Children of Promise NYC$2,00020%
Vinegar Hill Food Pantry Inc$2,00021%
Opencollective Foundation$2,00010%
Coleman Christensen Memorial Fund$2,0001n/a
AMHERST MALE GLEE CLUB INC DBA Red Blazer Men's Chorus$2,00022%
Cadman Park Conservancy$2,0002n/a
Row New York Inc$2,00010%
Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center Inc$2,00010%
Brooklyn Heights Association Inc$2,00020%
Youth Alive$2,00010%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$1,75010%
Hortulus Inc$1,50012%
Wytheville Community College Educational Foundation Inc$1,50010%
West Side Center for Community Life$1,50010%
Dorrance Dance Incorporated$1,50010%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$1,50010%
Community Bots Inc$1,5001n/a
Safe Horizon Inc$1,20010%
Ukraine House DC Foundation Inc$1,20010%
Dance to Unite Inc$1,10011%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$1,00010%
Cuny School of Professional Studies Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Play Groundnyc Inc$1,00010%
The Children's Hospital Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Backyard Players & Friends Inc$1,00010%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$1,00010%
The Queens Library Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Butterfly Effect Project Inc$1,00011%
Red Hook Art Project Inc$1,00010%
Fordham Preparatory School$1,0001n/a
Triangle Golf Foundation Inc Dba the First Tee of the Triangle$1,00010%
Musicares Foundation Inc$1,00010%
African Mission Healthcare Foundation$1,00010%
Mid Hudson Animal Aid Inc$1,00010%
Wytheville Community College$1,0001n/a
Willett Free Library$1,00011%
Charity Global Inc$1,00010%
Let's Get Ready Inc$1,00010%
Streetsquash Inc$1,00010%
The Jazz Gallery$1,00010%
New Neighbors Partnership Association$1,00010%
Jewish Center of the Hamptons$1,0001n/a
America's Adopt a Soldier$1,0001n/a
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy$1,00010%
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation$1,00010%
Brooklyn Friends School$1,0001n/a
Greater Newark Conservancy Inc$1,00010%
American Near East Refugee Aid$1,00010%
Abundance Academy of the Arts Inc$1,00011%
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 budgetThe Energy Foundation: $3,000,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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 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 budgetC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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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