· Private foundation
Walter S Roberts Charitable Foundation Inc
TO RAISE AND ADMINISTER DONATIONS FOR CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $198,600 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSN | $100,000 |
| CASH DONATIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS | $13,041 |
| ANIMAL FARM FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $5,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $5,000 |
| TOM KITCHEN MEMORIAL FUND | $5,000 |
| INTL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS | $5,000 |
| PINE STREET INN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RUNNING 4 ANSWERS | $5,000 |
| TONIS KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MT HOPE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY | $1,500 |
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 (FY22–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA3× · 2022–2024 · $279k · revenue +12%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $31k · revenue +83%
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +33%
Funded once
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +6%- AVAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -17%
- UTUS TREASURYone grant, 2023 · $600
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Animal Farm Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 21 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds Animal Farm Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Walter S Roberts Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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.
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