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Timothy and Lisa Robertson Foundation at a glance

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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.

$824k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$1.4MHuman Services$748kEducation$506kHealth$245kAnimals$245kInternational$165kPhilanthropy$128kEnvironment$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $338k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $475k
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION BLESSING$100,000
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE$100,000
BY HIS WOUNDS MINISTRIES$75,000
HOPE HEALS$50,000
PROVERBS 31 MINISTRIES$50,000
REFUGE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK INC$50,000
E3 ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION$43,000
GALILEE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$40,000
SKIP 1 CHARITIES INC$25,000
CHILDHELP INC$25,000
CAPSTONE LEGACY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
MISSION OF HOPE$25,000
FRIENDS FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT$20,000
ALPHA USA$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDHELP INC: $25k → 11%HOPE HEALS: $3k → 13%AMERICAS KIDS BELONG: $25k → 11%MERCY CHEFS INC: $10k → 20%AMERICAS KIDS BELONG: $10k → 11%HARVEST HOME: $25k → 14%AMERICAS KIDS BELONG: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
ND
IL
NY
IA
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 24 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
16

Total granted

$3.0M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+29%

Still filing today

58%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TN
    THE NORFOLK ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $410k · revenue +22%
  • DW
    Delta Waterfowl Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +72%
  • AU
    Alpha USA
    3× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital of the King's Daughtersgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +29%
  • BH
    BIG HOUSE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • HH
    Harvest Home Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
World Hope International Inc

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…

International
2
Wake Forest University

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…

Education
3
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
4
Children's HopeChest

Inspired by Christ's love, Children's HopeChest releases the potential existing within vulnerable communities, starting with the children.

International
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
7
World Vision Inc

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…

International
8
Go On the Mission

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.

Religion
9
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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10
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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11
Bibleproject

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…

Religion
12
Northeastern Seminary

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Christian Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
18/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION BLESSING INC: $600,000 · OtherOPERATION BLESSING INCMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $460,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEBY HIS WORD MINISTRIES: $175,000 · OtherBY HIS WORD MINISTRIESGALILEE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $151,750 · OtherGALILEE EPISCOPAL CHURCHBY HIS WOUNDS MINISTRIES: $150,000 · OtherBY HIS WOUNDS MINISTRIESHOPE HEALS: $75,000 · OtherCAPITAL HILL PREGNANCY CENTER: $70,000 · Other+21 more: $355,500 · Other+21 moreTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY: $410,000 · EducationTHE NORFOLK ACA…ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC: $53,000 · EducationELEVATE EARLY E…THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $24,000 · Education+2 more: $14,425 · EducationPROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC: $190,000 · ReligionPROVERBS 31 MI…ALPHA INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC DBA ADVANCING INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS: $75,000 · ReligionALPHA INTERNAT…Alpha USA: $65,000 · ReligionAlpha USAREFUGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · ReligionREFUGE FOUNDAT…The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $50,000 · ReligionThe Christian …MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC: $25,000 · ReligionMISSION OF HOP…Delta Waterfowl Foundation: $244,604 · AnimalsUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $50,000 · PhilanthropySKIP 1 CHARITIES INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCapstone Legacy Foundation Inc: $25,000 · PhilanthropyThe River Ellis Foundation: $17,500 · PhilanthropyVB JAYCEES CHARITIES: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAmericas Kids Belong: $45,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHarvest Home Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $80,000 · HealthCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER INC: $20,000 · Health
Other$2,037,250Education$501,425Religion$455,000Animals$244,604Philanthropy$122,500Human Services$107,500Health$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $460,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY: $410,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $244,604 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetPROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC: $190,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC DBA ADVANCING INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS: $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAlpha USA: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC: $53,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetREFUGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmericas Kids Belong: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSKIP 1 CHARITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarvest Home Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCapstone Legacy Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetThe River Ellis Foundation: $17,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetREGENT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVB JAYCEES CHARITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $4,425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA: $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHope Heals Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Hampton Roads Communi…Sentara HealthServant FoundationUnited Way of South H…Raymond James Charita…C Barker Champions fo…Townebank FoundationBrown Advisory Charit…The Signatry Charitab…Dominion Energy Chari…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Timothy and Lisa Robertson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Timothy and Lisa Robertson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Timothy and Lisa Robertson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Timothy and Lisa Robertson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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