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The 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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Youth Development$275kAnimals$112kHealth$101kHuman Services$79kFood & Nutrition$67kHousing & Shelter$10kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $81k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CANBY CENTER$15,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$15,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE$11,200
RELIEF NURSERY OF EUGENE$10,000
OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION$10,000
LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
OREGON FFA FOUNDATION$10,000
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,500
NINETY-ONE SCHOOL PTO$1,000
JACKSON COUNTY 4-H FFA JR$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 15%LIBERTY HOUSE: $500 → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE: $12k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE: $11k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE: $10k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE: $10k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE: $10k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE: $10k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE: $5k → 15%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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$557k · 11 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$557k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+35%

Still filing today

45%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsInternationalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +54%
  • ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +24%
  • TC
    THE CANBY CENTER
    5× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +257%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLACKAMAS COUNTY FAIR IMPROVEMENT F
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TC
    THE CLACKAMAS CO FAIR IMPROVEMENT F
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • EUGENE MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +35%

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.

1
Jubilee Hall Pdx
Employment
2
Oregon Student Foundation

Oregon student foundation is oregon student association's (osa) 501(c)(3) related organization that provides the additional support that the student led osa needs to ensure that every oregonian has access to a quality, affordable education.

Education
3
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
4
Eugene Cdc

Early childhood development

Education
5
Canby Educational Foundation

To enhance cultural educational opportunities for the students of the canby school district

Philanthropy
6
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
7
Lane County Community Foundation

The mission of Lane County Community Foundation (the Foundation) is to improve the quality of life in Lane County, Kansas and communities within Lane County, and to ensure that the communities in and around Lane County will forever remain…

Philanthropy
8
Elevate Oregon

Elevating potential, building sustained relationships with urban youth, and charting paths to brighter futures.

Youth Development
9
Oregon Family School

Partnering with parents to provide a rich, innovative, and effective home- based education that nurtures academic success and personal growth.

Education
10
The Oregon Community Foundation Trust

The oregon community foundation trust is a supporting organization of the oregon community foundation (ocf). the trust makes grants that further the mission of ocf which is to improve the lives of all oregonians through the power of…

Philanthropy
11
Portland Esl Scholarship Fund
Philanthropy
12
Oregon Wheat Foundation

Issue scholarships for secondary ag eduction

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Canby Music Boosters. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RELIEF NURSERY OF EUGENE — $170,000 · OtherRELIEF NURSERY OF EUGENEST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA — $95,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALOOKING GLASS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERV — $65,000 · OtherLOOKING GLASS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVTHE CANBY CENTER — $23,800 · OtherTHE CANBY CENTER+10 more — $37,600 · Other+10 moreTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $109,750 · AnimalsTHE OREGON ZOO FOU…ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC — $68,200 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE…LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesLOOKING GLASS…+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesOREGON FFA FOUNDATION INC — $56,750 · Food & NutritionOREGON FF…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON INC — $15,000 · InternationalEUGENE MISSION INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCANBY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$391,400Animals$109,750Human Services$78,700Food & Nutrition$56,750International$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $109,750 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC — $68,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FFA FOUNDATION INC — $56,750 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CANBY CENTER — $23,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE MISSION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANBY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetELIJAH J AUXIER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOregon State University Foundation — $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANBY MUSIC BOOSTERS — $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLIBERTY HOUSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds OREGON FFA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE CANBY CENTER
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON INC
  • Who funds LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Who funds EUGENE MISSION INC
  • Who funds CANBY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ELIJAH J AUXIER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation
  • Who funds NINETY-ONE SCHOOL PTO
  • Who funds CANBY MUSIC BOOSTERS
  • Who funds LIBERTY HOUSE

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Braemar Charitable Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 18%
  • Liberty House23% of income from government
  • Looking Glass Community Services18% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County Inc7% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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