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Jd Robertson Foundation

Cleveland, OH · EIN 23-7006584. Reported 45 grants totalling $557,641 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$600median grant
$557,641granted, 2021-2023
32organizations funded
28%of grantees funded again the next year

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Jd Robertson Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $600. Half of everything it gave fell between $225 and $1,500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $445,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
24 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
12 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Schwab CharitableOrlando, FL$451,766222023
Hunger Coalition of Wood RiverBellevue, ID$52,100222022
Sun Valley Music FestivalKetchum, ID$12,000222022
The Spur Community FoundationKetchum, ID$10,000112021
St Luke's Wood River FoundationKetchum, ID$7,500222022
Skyline Residents AssociationSeattle, WA$5,000112022
Sun Valley Community SchoolSun Valley, ID$2,500112021
Rainbow Babies & Children's HospitalCleveland, OH$2,000222022
Wood River Community YMCAKetchum, ID$2,000222022
Skyline Charitable FoundationLong Island City, NY$1,500112021
Sun Valley Museum of ArtKetchum, ID$1,500222022
Hospice of the Wood River ValleyKetchum, ID$1,100222022
Blaine County Charitable FundHailey, ID$1,000112022
Hospice of the Western ReserveWestlake, OH$1,000112021
Seattle Arts and LecturesSeattle, WA$1,000112022
Transforming Age FoundationSeattle, WA$1,000112022
Hemingway SchoolKetchum, ID$750112021
The Spot TheaterKetchum, ID$600222022
The Community LibraryKetchum, ID$500222022
Wood River Mountain Bike TeamHailey, ID$500112022
St Thomas PlayhouseSun Valley, ID$450222022
Friends of Idaho Public TelevisionBoise, ID$250112021
Nature Conservancy IdahoHailey, ID$250112021
Northfield Mount HermonGill, MA$250112022
Seattle Art MuseumSeattle, WA$225112022
Mountain HumaneHailey, ID$200222022
The Senior ConnectionHailey, ID$200222022
Beaumont SchoolCleveland Heights, OH$100112021
Boise State Public RadioBoise, ID$100112021
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$100112022
National Forest FoundationMissoula, MT$100112021
Valley Club Employee Scholarship FundBoise, ID$100112021

13 of 32 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 28%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202123$57,800$500
202221$493,075$600
20231$6,766$6,766

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 81% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$452K
Idaho
$94K
Washington
$7K
Ohio
$3K
New York
$2K
Massachusetts
$250
Montana
$100

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc13 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $600. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Jd Robertson Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1350 Euclid Avenue Suite 400, Cleveland, OH, 44115. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 23-7006584 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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