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Thurston & Bertha Roberts Charitable Fd

Dallas, TX · EIN 59-6559688. Reported 98 grants totalling $268,182 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$268,182granted, 2021-2024
55organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,320,338assets, latest filing

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. Thurston & Bertha Roberts Charitable Fd 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $400 and the largest $18,600. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
77 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants

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
I Am SentJacksonville, FL$21,600332024
Jacksonville Zoo and GardensJacksonville, FL$19,450332023
The Community FoundationJacksonville, FL$15,000222024
Light in the Word MinistryJacksonville, FL$14,700442024
Pace Center for Girls IncJacksonville, FL$11,625332024
904WARDJacksonville, FL$11,000222024
Beaches Habitat for HumanityAtlantic Beach, FL$10,500332024
Murray Hill MinistriesJacksonville, FL$9,500332024
Friends of Jacksonville AnimalsJacksonville, FL$9,309332024
First Coast No More Homeless PetsJacksonville, FL$9,000332024
Crosswinds MinistryJacksonville, FL$8,000442024
Episcopal School of JacksonvilleJacksonville, FL$8,000442024
Beaches Fine Arts SeriesJacksonville Beach, FL$7,500332023
Living Waters World Outreach CenterFern Beach, FL$7,000112024
Jacksonville Area Legal AidJacksonville, FL$6,923332024
Beaches Area Historical Society IncJacksonvile Beach, FL$6,500222024
Baptist Health FoundationJacksonville, FL$5,000112024
Beam Beaches Emergency Assistance MinistryJacksonville Beach, FL$5,000222024
Church of the Good ShepherdCovington, GA$5,000332023
Jesusquest International IncJacksonville, FL$5,000112024
Wjct IncJacksonville, FL$5,000112024
Nonprofit Center of Ne FloridaJacksonville, FL$3,375112021
Arc JacksonvilleJacksonville, FL$3,000332023
Bcr MinistriesWhite, GA$3,000222023
Beyond 90Jacksonville, FL$3,000222023
Co-Passion MinistriesJacksonville, FL$3,000332023
Fellowship of Christian AthletesPonte Vedra Beach, FL$3,000222022
Fountains of Life IncAtlantic Beach, FL$3,000112023
Here TomorrowNeptune Beach, FL$3,000112024
Nonprofit Center of Northeast E FloridaJacksonville, FL$3,000112023
Seniors on a MissionJacksonville, FL$3,000222023
The Gate ChurchJacksonville, FL$3,000112024
Three Grains of RiceJacksonville, FL$3,000112021
Heart of the Good Shepherd IncJacksonville, FL$2,500112023
Seminole Boosters IncTallahassee, FL$2,300222024
Cornerstone Classical AcademyJacksonville, FL$2,000222022
Emmanuel Neo Pentcostal ChurchCanal Winchester, OH$2,000112021
Fountain of LifeAtlantic Beach, FL$2,000112021
Jesus Quest InternationalJacksonville, FL$2,000112021
Redeemer ChurchPonte Vedra Beach, FL$2,000112023
Douglas Anderson FoundationJacksonville, FL$1,500112021
Echols County Historical SocietyqStatenville, GA$1,500112022
Jacksonville Seminole ClubJacksonville, FL$1,500112021
Leadership JacksonvilleJacksonville, FL$1,500112021
Angels for AllisonJacksonville, FL$1,000112024
Canine CompanionsSanta Rosa, CA$1,000112022
First Coast Women's ServicesJacksonville, FL$1,000112021
Isaiah 117 HouseElizabethton, TN$1,000112021
Paramount ChurchJacksonville, FL$1,000112021
Run MinistriesVirgina Bch, VA$1,000112023
Tennis Is for EveryoneJacksonville, FL$1,000112021
Trail Life TroopJacksonville Beach, FL$1,000112022
Transformation JacksonvilleJacksonville, FL$1,000112022
Vision Church of JacksonvilleJacksonville, FL$1,000112024
Ne Fl FCA -Fellowship Christian AthletesPonte Vedra Beach, FL$400112024

25 of 55 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 50%, across 3 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 49 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
12 grants
Education
10 grants
Animal Welfare
8 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Human Services
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202131$71,950$2,000
202217$30,500$1,000
202326$83,332$2,000
202424$82,400$3,000

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. 95% 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
$254K
Georgia
$10K
Ohio
$2K
Virginia
$1K
California
$1K
Tennessee
$1K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. 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 Thurston & Bertha Roberts Charitable Fd's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. 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 59-6559688 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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