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Robuck Family 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.

$204k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$276kReligion$213kHuman Services$172kHealth$144kRecreation & Sports$25kEnvironment$14kPhilanthropy$11kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $155k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$55,000
HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHUR$50,000
UTSW FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MD ANDERSON$12,500
CAMP JOHN MARC$5,000
DALLAS ARBORETUM$3,500
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UT AUSTIN: $45k → 10%CAMP JOHN MARC: $5k → 12%CAMP JOHN MARC: $5k → 14%ST JOHN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $55k → 5%CAMP JOHN MARC: $4k → 12%CAMP JOHN MARC: $5k → 14%ST JOHN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20k → 5%CAMP JOHN MARC: $1k → 12%CAMP JOHN MARC: $5k → 14%JACKSON COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%DALLAS ABORETUM: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES: $3k → 5%DALLAS ARBORETUM: $4k → 14%DALLAS ARBORETUM: $4k → 14%DALLAS ARBORETUM: $4k → 14%DALLAS ARBORETUM: $4k → 14%DALLAS ABORETUM: $3k → 14%UT OF DALLAS - BRAIN HEALTH: $58k → 14%UT OF DALLAS - BRAIN HEALTH: $51k → 14%UT OF DALLAS - BRAIN HEALTH: $25k → 14%UT OF DALLAS - BRAIN HEALTH: $20k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $20k → 14%3CREEK CARES: $5k → 14%3CREEK CARES: $5k → 14%UT OF DALLAS - BRAIN HEALTH: $5k → 14%PARK CITIES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHUR: $50k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHUR: $50k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHUR: $40k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHUR: $28k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN - CLEMENTS CENTER: $25k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHUR: $24k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHUR: $22k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN - CLEMENTS CENTER: $20k → 14%JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS: $10k → 14%UTSW FOUNDATION: $55k → 14%UTSW FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%UTSW FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%THE SENIOR SOURCE: $30k → 14%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 14%THE SENIOR SOURCE: $10k → 14%REES JONES FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 14%THE SENIOR SOURCE: $2k → 14%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$871k · 15 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +163% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$871k
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+163%
+26%

Still filing today

33%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

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

  • SJ
    St John's Health Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +267%
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +163%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $42k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UA
    UT AUSTIN - CLEMENTS CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • UA
    UT AUSTIN
    one grant, 2018 · $45k
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Southwestern Health Resources Hospitals Joc

To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.

Health
2
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

3
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

5
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
Southwestern Health Resources

To further the missions of utsw and thr on a local, regional and national level through the creation of a clinically integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other care providers to deliver healthcare across the continuum and by…

Health
7
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
8
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Baylor Health Care System Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
10
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
11
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Dallas Regional Chamber

Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is The Rees-Jones 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHUR — $213,100 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURIndividual grant recipient — $158,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUTSW FOUNDATION — $155,000 · OtherUTSW FOUNDATIONUT AUSTIN - CLEMENTS CENTER — $100,000 · OtherUT AUSTIN - CLEMENTS CENTERUT SOUTHWESTERN - CLEMENTS CENTER — $45,000 · OtherUT AUSTIN — $45,000 · OtherSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $41,750 · OtherUT AUSTIN - STUDENT PROD DEV FUND — $30,000 · Other+9 more — $88,691 · Other+9 moreSt John's Health Foundation — $75,000 · Health+2 more — $1,500 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $14,000 · EnvironmentJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementDallas Museum of Art — $7,500 · Arts & CultureThe Rees-Jones Foundation — $5,750 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC — $3,000 · Employment
Other$877,491Health$76,500Education$50,000Environment$14,000Community Improvement$10,000Arts & Culture$7,500Philanthropy$5,750Employment$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSt John's Health Foundation — $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $41,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDallas Museum of Art — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 St John's Health Foundation
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC
  • Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC
  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art
  • Who funds The Rees-Jones Foundation
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds DALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Texas Health Resources 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.

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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 Robuck Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Robuck Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robuck Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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