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The Roberts Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
RELIEF NURSERY OF EUGENE$10,000
OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%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%LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $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
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CR
    CANBY ROTARY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +810% · 46% of their budget
  • CC
    CLACKAMAS COUNTY FAIR IMPROVEMENT F
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • EUGENE MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +35%
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.

04Its 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc; 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 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. 13 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · InternationalCANBY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyEUGENE MISSION INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$391,400Animals$109,750Human Services$78,700Food & Nutrition$56,750International$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

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 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 budgetCANBY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetLOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE MISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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 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 CANBY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds EUGENE MISSION 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 ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …The Ford Family Found…Juan Young TrustOnpoint Community Cre…Braemar Charitable Tr…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Marie Lamfrom Charita…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Renaissance Charitabl…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…
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

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 Roberts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roberts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Liberty House: 23% of income from government
  • Looking Glass Community Services: 18% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% 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, 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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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