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The Kelly J Roberts Private 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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$170kPhilanthropy$50kArts & Culture$30kEducation$26kCommunity Improvement$10kHuman Services$5kAnimals$5kEmployment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOC FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Argyos Family Foundation: $50k → 10%Olive Branch Christian School: $1k → 11%Loma Linda Univ Children's Hospital: $10k → 14%Pepperdine University: $15k → 14%Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10k → 11%Greater Works Today Inc: $3k → 11%SHINING STARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%CHOC Childrens Foundation: $10k → 10%LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $5k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $30k → 14%SHINING STARS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%CHOC FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%Orange County City of Hope: $10k → 14%Mission Hospital Foundation: $60k → 10%Angel Force USA: $10k → 10%AHAH: $10k → 10%AHAH Newport Beach Symposium 2018: $10k → 10%Various charities: $5k → 10%Various charities: $1k → 10%LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $30k → 10%Elaine Park Reward Fund: $5k → 10%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $5k → 10%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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of The Kelly J Roberts Private Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Kelly J Roberts Private Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$56k · 4 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$56k
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+45%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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

  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +60%
  • SS
    SHINING STARS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +51%
  • LL
    LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    2× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +39%
  • AF
    ARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +330%
  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2021 · $30k

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.

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Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Foundation

Our children's hospital foundation is dedicated to supporting loma linda university children's hospital's mission to bring whole-child healthcare to the region and beyond.

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Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
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Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

The lucile packard foundation for children's health is here to unlock philanthropy to transform health for all kids and moms, in northern california and around the world. our foundation raises funds for child and maternal health at lucile…

Health
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Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
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Loma Linda University

Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…

Education
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Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
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Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
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Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
10
Memorial Hospital Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

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Loma Linda University Shared Services Inc

To participate in christ's ministry of health, healing, and wholeness for: education, healthcare, and research by providing support to the lluh entities.

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Usc Arcadia Hospital

To provide high-quality healing services while caring for the patient's emotional and spiritual needs and enabling them to achieve health for life.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Argyros Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATIONCITY OF HOPE — $30,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPELOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $15,000 · OtherLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALOrange County City of Hope — $10,000 · OtherOrange County City of HopeAHAH Newport Beach Symposium 2018 — $10,000 · OtherAHAH Newport Beach Symposium 2018AHAH — $10,000 · OtherAHAHVarious charities — $6,000 · OtherElaine Park Reward Fund — $5,000 · Other+2 more — $4,000 · OtherMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $60,000 · HealthMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MED…CHOC FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATIONTHE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAGUNA …PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationPEPPERDIN…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…SHINING STARS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsAngel Force USA — $10,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $5,000 · Animals
Other$140,000Health$80,000Arts & Culture$30,000Education$25,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Public Benefit$10,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHINING STARS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Force USA — $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 The Kelly J Roberts Private 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 18 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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