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T V Roberts Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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T V Roberts Family Foundation 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.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$77kEducation$31kInternational$20kFood & Nutrition$18kHealth$11kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$444Arts & Culture$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$727k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN PURSE$20,000
OZAUKEE FOOD ALLIANCE$5,000
LIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
GRAFTON SCHOOL DISTRICT$1,000
EBENEZER UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$1,000
AUTISM ANGLERS$500
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PLYMOUTH FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 9%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.
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50k · 3 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$50k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+7%

Still filing today

33%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 & CultureReligionAnimalsHealthFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • EU
    EBENEZER UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $33k
  • LR
    LIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • OF
    OZAUKEE FOOD ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAUL LUTHERAN
    one grant, 2017 · $43k
  • LH
    LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • K
    K-LOVE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Sharing Bread Soup Kitchen

We exist to demonstrate the love of christ by providing meals to the hungry. through this act of love we hope to provide spiritual and emotional as well as physical sustenance. our ultimate aim is to facilitate within our guests a genuine…

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2
Waushara County Food Pantry Inc

We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Lord's Pantry of Shinnston

Provide food to needy individuals & families - food is puchased from several sources, donated from serveral sources. costs include renting u-haul trucks to picking up truck loads of food from the mountaineer food bank. we also provide…

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4
Green County Food Pantry Inc

The purpose of the Green County Food Pantry, Inc. is to provide food for those in need in the Green County area.

Food & Nutrition
5
Cooperstown Food Pantry Inc

The mission of the cooperstown food pantry is to address issues of poverty and hunger in otsego county.

Food & Nutrition
6
Holliston Pantry Shelfinc

Providing food and goods to the needy in holliston,ma.

Employment
7
Oconomowoc Food Pantry Inc

To provide food items to individuals and families, or anyone in need that resides within the Oconomowoc area school district, or who has an Oconomowoc mailing address.

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8
Hope House of Manitowoc County Inc

Helping families and individuals experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence.

Human Services
9
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc

The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
10
Slice Out Hunger Inc

We build strong connections between members of our pizza community and their neighbors in need to fight food insecurity across the US.

Human Services
11
The Lighthouse Shelter

To provide a homeless shelter to indigents and those facing emergency housing needs. we will provide help to them in securing permanent housing. the organization is built on the christian ideal to love our neighbor which includes persons…

Human Services
12
Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc

The mission of Good Shepherd is to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and foster transition to housing.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Sharing of Ozaukee County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

8 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. 8 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAUL LUTHERAN: $42,500 · OtherST PAUL LUTHERANEBENEZER UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $32,775 · OtherEBENEZER UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTLUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $29,750 · OtherLUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLOZAUKEE FOOD ALLIANCE: $7,500 · OtherOZAUKEE FOOD ALLIANCEK-LOVE: $5,284 · Other+6 more: $5,944 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S P…LIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthFAMILY SHARING OF OZAUKEE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionPLYMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES: $250 · Arts & CultureCompassion International Incorporated: $110 · InternationalHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $100 · Animals
Other$123,753Religion$20,000Health$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Human Services$5,000Arts & Culture$250International$110Animals$100

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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY SHARING OF OZAUKEE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLYMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $444 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $100 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.

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.

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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 T V Roberts Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T V Roberts Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 T V Roberts Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to T V Roberts Family Foundation 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 18 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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