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Robet Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIDHWAN FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER | $12,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN MICH | $12,000 |
| GUEST HOUSE | $10,000 |
| TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC | $7,500 |
| THE FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER | $7,500 |
| LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS | $7,500 |
| LEELANAU CHILDRENS CENTER | $7,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR | $6,000 |
| MICHAELS PLACE | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| LELAND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $4,500 |
| LELAND PUBLIC SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| CHILD FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWES | $4,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Robet Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LCLEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +355%
- THTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +66%
- GHGUEST HOUSE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CFCHILD FAM SVS OF NW MIone grant, 2024 · $6k
- LCLEELANAU CHIILDRENS CENTERone grant, 2019 · $6k
- WRWomen's Resource Centerone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Assist parents with the care and development of their preschool children (Parenting Communities) and to establish home childcare businesses for infants and toddlers (ITCS)
A place for community, connection and conversation for refugess, immagrants, or visitors to this country
To facilitate connecting the Leelanau county community of seniors with services and activities that promote a healthy independent and fulfilled lifestyle while aging.
Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.
Advocate for people in recovery & provides holistic options for those recovering from substance use disorder, codependency & trauma.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Provides services to new refugees in West Michigan.
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
Provide no cost care and no cost room and board for the terminally ill.
Creating healthy communities - together
The Severe Weather Network (SWN) partners with community organizations, agencies, and faith communities to provide emergency, overnight refuge during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness in Livingston County. SWN also…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Traverse Health Clinic and Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Traverse City Dance Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds Friendship Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Traverse City Dance Project ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF WONDER INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN'S CLOSET ↗
- Who funds POWER BOOK BAGS ↗
- Who funds Women's Resource Center ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Leelanau County Cancer Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Leelanau Township Community Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · The Meyers Mueller Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Robet 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.
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.
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