New York · Private foundation
The Roby 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.
- $2k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Roby Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American-Scandinavian Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community for Education Foundation Dba Overcoming Obstacles | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Vanderbilt University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinity Episcopal School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Allen-Stevenson School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Roby Foundation
- How much does The Roby Foundation give?
- The Roby Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $2,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Roby Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Social Science (98%), Education (1%), International (1%).
- Who are The Roby Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The American-Scandinavian Foundation ($10k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($3k), Community for Education Foundation Dba Overcoming Obstacles ($3k).
- Does The Roby Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Roby 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 Roby Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Roby Foundation based?
- The Roby Foundation is based in NY.
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