The Norman & Bettina Roberts Foundation

• The Norman & Bettina Roberts Foundation works by invitation only, and its filing says it does not accept unsolicited requests, so a small charity should not send a cold application and should first look for a route to an introduction.
• The filing does not describe how it chooses recipients or name a funding field, though it has supported schools, religious congregations, family and community services, health-related organisations, and arts and cultural bodies.
• No geographic focus is stated; its grants are mainly in New York, Florida and New Jersey, but that pattern is not a rule about who may apply.
• About 8 in 10 of its 181 grants fall between $2,500 and $15,000, and half are $5,000 or less, so a request near $5,000 sits near the middle of what it has given, although its largest grant was $30,000.
• Because 54% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had also funded in earlier filings, groups seeking support should weigh that repeat pattern when deciding whether to pursue an introduction.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Friendship Circle · Charitable
  $30,0002025 tax year
• Joesph & Malka Melohn · charitable
  $30,0002025 tax year
• Il Circolo · Charitable
  $25,0002025 tax year
• Bobbie's Place · charitable
  $25,0002025 tax year
• Rabbi Jacob Joseph · charitable
  $25,0002025 tax year
• Jewish Foundation School · charitable
  $25,0002025 tax year
• Southern Methodist University · charitable
  $20,0002025 tax year
• Il Circolo · charitable
  $20,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.