California · Private foundation
The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation
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.
- $737k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $49,743
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,356
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $259k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $737k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $935k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $699k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $1.0M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.2M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $594k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $662k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Joy Culture Foundation | $1,911,520 | 5 | 85% |
| Tipping Point Community | $1,552,314 | 9 | 1% |
| Dunn School | $1,090,196 | 9 | 2% |
| The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $873,771 | 9 | 0% |
| Silicon Valley International School | $255,330 | 7 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart Schools Atherton | $229,546 | 9 | n/a |
| Redf | $219,434 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | $150,320 | 6 | 0% |
| The Marine Mammal Center | $127,457 | 9 | 0% |
| Conservation Earth Inc | $111,525 | 6 | 9% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Joy Culture Foundation | $1,911,520 | 5 | 85% |
| Tipping Point Community | $1,552,314 | 9 | 1% |
| Dunn School | $1,090,196 | 9 | 2% |
| The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $873,771 | 9 | 0% |
| Silicon Valley International School | $255,330 | 7 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart Schools Atherton | $229,546 | 9 | n/a |
| Redf | $219,434 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | $150,320 | 6 | 0% |
| The Marine Mammal Center | $127,457 | 9 | 0% |
| Conservation Earth Inc | $111,525 | 6 | 9% |
| 10000 Degrees | $60,677 | 4 | 0% |
| Street Soccer USA Inc | $60,135 | 2 | 2% |
| The Schoolbox Project | $50,378 | 2 | 26% |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $50,347 | 1 | 0% |
| Grace Science Foundation | $30,084 | 3 | 1% |
| Teach for America Inc | $25,492 | 1 | 0% |
| Society of Illustrators Inc | $24,910 | 1 | 1% |
| San Mateo County Historical Association | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Child Mind Institute Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Peninsula Humane Society & Spca | $10,173 | 1 | 0% |
| Advocats Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cake4kids | $5,216 | 1 | 0% |
| International Veterinary Outreach | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Himalayan Cataract Project Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($725k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Roberts Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Courtney Roberts and Steve Preston Family Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation
- How much does The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation give?
- The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $736,503 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Education (22%), International (20%).
- Who are The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Joy Culture Foundation ($1.9M), Tipping Point Community ($1.6M), Dunn School ($1.1M).
- Does The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family 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 The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Roberts Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation based?
- The Eric and Lulu Roberts Family Foundation is based in CA.
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