· Private foundation
The Robertson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUZZARDS BAY COALITION | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SO NEW ENG | $25,000 |
| PUBLIC'S RADIO | $20,000 |
| DESIGN ART TECHNOLOGY MASSACHUSETTS | $16,000 |
| NEW ENG FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION | $15,000 |
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $8,000 |
| THE NEWFORD BEDFORD LIGHT | $5,000 |
| OUR SISTERS SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| COASTAL NEIGHBORS NETWORK | $2,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR WEST AFRICA | $1,500 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MARION INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THE TOMORROW FUND | $500 |
| ZEITERION PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION8× · 2018–2025 · $327k · revenue +83%- TMThe Mustique Charitable Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $156k · revenue +106%
- OSOUR SISTERS SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- NENEW ENGLAND FIRST AMENDMENTone grant, 2017 · $15k
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $15k
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 program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 63 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 BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds The Mustique Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COASTAL NEIGHBORS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds ZEITERION THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVESTOCK INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR WEST AFRICA ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds THE TOMORROW FUND ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust
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 Robertson 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.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
- Zeiterion Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
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.