· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +45% since the first grant, against -20% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES7× · 2017–2023 · $94k · revenue +226%
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL2× · 2018–2019 · $40k · revenue +45%
- ABANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- SMSHERIDAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SCSENIOR CENTERone grant, 2017 · $20k
- KK-LIFEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 55 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 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 ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Roberts Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roberts Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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