· Private foundation
Timothy and Lisa Robertson Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION BLESSING | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE | $100,000 |
| BY HIS WOUNDS MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| PROVERBS 31 MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| HOPE HEALS | $50,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK INC | $50,000 |
| REFUGE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| E3 ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION | $43,000 |
| GALILEE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $40,000 |
| MISSION OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| CHILDHELP INC | $25,000 |
| CAPSTONE LEGACY FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| SKIP 1 CHARITIES INC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| HARVEST HOME LA ORGINZATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
- TNTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY4× · 2021–2024 · $410k · revenue +22%
- DWDelta Waterfowl Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +72%
- AUAlpha USA3× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughtersgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +29%
- BHBIG HOUSE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $30k
- HHHarvest Home Incone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -11%
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 purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Inspired by Christ's love, Children's HopeChest releases the potential existing within vulnerable communities, starting with the children.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
GO equips impoverished children to conquer the cycle of poverty through holistic Christ-centered care, enabling them to become followers of Christ who bring hope and healing to their worlds.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Christian Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 13% 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.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 52 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 MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds ALPHA INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC DBA ADVANCING INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Americas Kids Belong ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Harvest Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Capstone Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds SKIP 1 CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds The River Ellis Foundation ↗
- Who funds REGENT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS 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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · Servant Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · C Barker Champions for Charity Inc · Townebank Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Timothy and Lisa 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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