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The Roberts Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Roberts Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Sheridan Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Roberts Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $144k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k12 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,300 |
| CHAPS | $25,000 |
| SHERIDAN MEMORIAL HOPSITAL FOUND | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $4,000 |
| RANCHO CIELO YOUTH CAMPUS | $3,000 |
| SHS BOOSTER CLUB | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER | $2,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM AT THE BIG HORNS | $1,625 |
| GENESIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES7× · 2017–2023 · $94k · revenue +226%
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL2× · 2018–2019 · $40k · revenue +36%
- ABANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- SMSHERIDAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SCSENIOR CENTERone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The purpose of the entity is to provide activities, wellness and nutrition programs for senior citizens in shoshoni, wy and the surrounding area.
To provide students a learning environment where they can develop independence, cultivate passions, and grow the skill sets needed to be successful and fulfilled in life
Dedicated to serving the health, wellness, recreational, and social needs of cheyenne county and surrounding area
Christian ministry reaching youth for christ in sheridan, wyoming and the surrounding areas.
To provide a community service by providing a place where a family can enjoy a safe environment
Organlized and operated to receive, manage and distribute gifts made to the foundation for charitable, religious, educational, literary or scientific purposes within barnes, ransom and griggs counties of north dakota
To provide and maintain a community center/building that offers space for various events and organizations in sheridan, texas and the local surrounding area.
Provide activities for low income children
Preserve and share our rich heritage, engaging present and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is The Shack. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHACK ↗
- Who funds ROOTED IN WYOMING ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · The Herbert & Dorothy Zullig Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation · The Riggs Foundation
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 Roberts Family 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.
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.
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