· Private foundation
C L Robbins Tuw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $65,449 |
| CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $36,361 |
| CENTRAL ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $29,089 |
| ALDERSGATE UNITED METHODIST RETIREMENT C | $29,089 |
| LENOIR KIWANIS CLUB CHARITY FUND | $14,544 |
| PIEDMONT COUNCIL BS FBO CALDWELL | $11,635 |
| GS CAROLINAS PEAK TO PIEDMONT | $11,635 |
| BETHEL COLONY OF MERCY INC | $11,635 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI OF LENOIR DIOCESE | $11,635 |
| CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL | $2,500 |
| PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH6× · 2020–2025 · $408k
- CMCALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $227k · revenue +56%
- CACENTRAL ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH6× · 2020–2025 · $181k
Funded once
- KIKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $14k
- ASAPPALACHIAN ST UNIV FBOone grant, 2023 · $3k
- CCCALDWELL COM COL AND TECH INST FBOone grant, 2023 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
The purpose of methodist university is to provide an undergraduate and graduate education firmly grounded in the liberal arts tradition, that nurtures moral values & ethical decision-making; to provide distinctive professional & graduate…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 122 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Gaston Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization C L Robbins Tuw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C L Robbins Tuw. Bigger dots raise more.
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