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Arthur M Robinson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$154kHuman Services$134kYouth Development$90kReligion$70kFood & Nutrition$41kHealth$13kPhilanthropy$3kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $56k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$792k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$12,000
CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY$12,000
ADOPTION OPTIONS$12,000
SALESIAN SOCIETY$10,000
HANNA BOYS CENTER$10,000
FOOD FOR THOUGHT DENVER$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$2,500
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION FAMILY FUND: $10k → 18%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 14%OPERATION FAMILY FUND: $10k → 18%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $12k → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $10k → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $10k → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $10k → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $10k → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $10k → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $10k → 12%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$496k · 11 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$496k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+179%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AO
    ADOPTION OPTIONS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +8%
  • CO
    Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +62%
  • FF
    Food For Thought Denver
    8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • SJ
    ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • AR
    ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -1%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Clif Family Foundation
Philanthropy
4
San Francisco Family Foundation
5
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
6
Community Food Share Inc

To eliminate hunger in boulder and broomfield counties through engagement, collaboration and leadership.

Food & Nutrition
7
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
8
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

9
Cfp Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Cancer Foundation Inc

The cancer foundation's mission is to alleviate the financial burden of cancer.

Health
11
The Sam Simon Feeding Families Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Chance for Life

Chance for life's mission is to raise awareness and funds for critical research and clinical trials for pediatric cancer in the united states of america.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Operation Enduring Freedom Family Fund. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY — $92,000 · OtherCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYHANNA BOYS CENTER — $90,000 · OtherHANNA BOYS CENTERSALESIAN SOCIETY — $70,000 · OtherSALESIAN SOCIETYOPERATION FAMILY — $30,000 · OtherOPERATION FAMILYSALESIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherSALESIAN HIGH SCHOOL+4 more — $10,000 · OtherADOPTION OPTIONS — $82,000 · Human ServicesADOPTION OPTIONSOPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM FAMILY FUND — $20,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION ENDURING FRE…+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $42,000 · EducationChildren of Fal…Food For Thought Denver — $27,500 · EducationFood For Though…Feeding America — $13,500 · Food & NutritionPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$312,000Human Services$103,500Education$69,500Food & Nutrition$13,500Health$9,000Philanthropy$4,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetADOPTION OPTIONS — $82,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $42,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood For Thought Denver — $27,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM FAMILY FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFeeding America — $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ADOPTION OPTIONS
  • Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation
  • Who funds Food For Thought Denver
  • Who funds OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM FAMILY FUND
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Arthur M Robinson Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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