Texas · Private foundation
The Robertson-Finley 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.
- $205k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 61
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Robertson-Finley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $199k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $187k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $197k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $192k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $157k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $171k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $163k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $157k | 51% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Justice | $72,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $66,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Baylor Medical Foundation | $56,000 | 5 | 22% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $54,000 | 3 | 0% |
| State Policy Network | $52,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $45,000 | 9 | n/a |
| The Houston Food Bank | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Heartland Institute | $42,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies | $37,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($410k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robertson-Finley Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Bader Family Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Holman Foundation Inc · Woodford Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · John William Pope Foundation
How this is measured
About The Robertson-Finley Foundation
- How much does The Robertson-Finley Foundation give?
- The Robertson-Finley Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $205,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Robertson-Finley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (21%), Education (17%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are The Robertson-Finley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Institute for Justice ($72k), Pacific Legal Foundation ($66k), Baylor Medical Foundation ($56k).
- Does The Robertson-Finley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robertson-Finley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Robertson-Finley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc.
- Where is The Robertson-Finley Foundation based?
- The Robertson-Finley Foundation is based in TX.
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