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The Robert F and Karen M Webster Family Foundation at a glance

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The Robert F and Karen M Webster 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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Robert F and Karen M Webster Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Robert F and Karen M Webster Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $20k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’22
1
’23
7
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$20kEducation$10kHealth$8kAnimals$5kEnvironment$3kFood & Nutrition$3kHousing & Shelter$3kHuman Services$3k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$279k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE80 PLACE$2,500
CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER$2,500
MUSC FOUNDATION$2,500
CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY$2,500
WNC FOOD SYSTEMS COALITION$2,500
CAMP HAPPY DAYS$2,500
PILOT DOGS$2,500
LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF$2,500
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $3k → 17%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 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
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.

Animals
2
Safe Haven for Cats

The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.

Animals
3
Carolina Tiger Rescue

Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.

Animals
4
Carolina Cat Rescue

Carolina Cat Rescue's mission is to help the unwanted cats and kittens of North Carolina that end up at county shelters or are in need of rescue. We partner with no-kill reputable cat rescues in the Northeast and transport the cats there.…

Animals
5
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
6
Carolina Animal Network

we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…

Animals
7
Dorchester Paws

Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Animals
8
Charleston Legal Access

To expand access to legal representation and rights in South Carolina.

Crime & Legal
9
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
10
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.

Animals
11
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
12
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Society for the Blind; the most unlike its peers is Wnc Food Systems Coalition Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $20,000 · PhilanthropyRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUNDMUSC FOUNDATION: $5,500 · OtherMUSC FOUNDATIONCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC: $4,500 · OtherCAMP HAPPY DAYS INCTHE PARISH SCHOOL: $4,000 · OtherTHE PARISH SCHOOLPILOT DOGS ALLOWAY: $2,500 · OtherPILOT DOGS ALLOWAYCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND S…LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $2,500 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY …One-Eighty Place: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterWNC Food Systems Coalition Inc: $2,500 · Food & NutritionCHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $2,500 · EnvironmentCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,500 · Animals
Philanthropy$20,000Other$16,500Human Services$5,500Housing & Shelter$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,500Environment$2,500Animals$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILOT DOGS ALLOWAY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNC Food Systems Coalition Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetCHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,500 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 The Robert F and Karen M Webster Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert F and Karen M Webster Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    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.

    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 11 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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