· Private foundation
The Norman & Bettina Roberts 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $177k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $385k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Friendship Circle | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Jewish Foundation School | $25,000 |
| Bobbie's Place | $25,000 |
| Il Circolo | $25,000 |
| Il Circolo | $20,000 |
| Southern Methodist Univ | $20,000 |
| The Buoniconti Cure Paralysis | $15,000 |
| Friendship Circle | $15,000 |
| High Point Univ | $15,000 |
| Friendship Circle | $15,000 |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $12,500 |
| Simchas Mayer Fund | $12,500 |
| Yeshiva Torah Vodaath | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 29 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICIl Circolo Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +106% · 43% of their budget
- BPBOBBIES PLACE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +33%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BPBobbi's Placeone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
To provide, and guide other schools in providing, an education in both jewish and secular studies that meet the needs of the invididual student, and which empowers each student to reach his/her highest level of independent and…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Our school is run on a system of mutual respect, for teachers, administration and students. in a warm and caring environment, full of creativity and multi-faceted approaches to education, we ignite a spark in each girl to love hashem and…
To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The institute is dedicated to the study, diagnosis and treatment of family relationship problems
Jcc metrowest's vision is to be the premier jewish social, recreational, cultural, and educational center that serves the entire metrowest community and inspires every individual to explore the boundless potential of judaism. (continued on…
Provide vital services & foster jewish identity, personal growth, family strength and community. the mid-island y jcc is open to everyone in the community serving individuals of all ages, abilities, and challenges.
The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 182 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Il Circolo Inc ↗
- Who funds BOBBIES PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds BROWARD SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SIMCHAS MAYER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN FAMILY CENTER ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Norman & Bettina Roberts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Norman & Bettina Roberts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bergen Family Center: 25% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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