Massachusetts · 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.
- $152k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Robertson 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; $100 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 | 21 | $152k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $184k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $181k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $187k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $182k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $182k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $197k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $273k | 33% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $327,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Mustique Charitable Foundation | $156,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Rhode Island Public Radio | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Our Sisters School | $53,850 | 9 | 0% |
| Coastal Neighbors Network Inc | $42,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Trinity Repertory Company | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Zeiterion Theatre Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Livestock Institute of Southern New England Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Foundation for West Africa | $10,000 | 9 | 12% |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robertson 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: 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
How this is measured
About The Robertson Foundation
- How much does The Robertson Foundation give?
- The Robertson Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $151,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Robertson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Environment (21%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Robertson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buzzards Bay Coalition ($327k), The Mustique Charitable Foundation ($156k), Rhode Island Public Radio ($60k).
- Does The Robertson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robertson 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Amica Companies Foundation, The Carney Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Robertson Foundation based?
- The Robertson Foundation is based in MA.
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