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David & Lucille Robbins Foundation Inc

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.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$1.0MPublic Benefit$265kArts & Culture$205kHuman Services$100kHousing & Shelter$65kReligion$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$100,000
The MirYam Institute$50,000
JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC$20,000
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA$10,000
WEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND$5,000
THE LAWFARE PROJECT$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20k → 14%THE WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $15k → 14%THE WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $15k → 14%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 10 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$1.7M
$10k

Still filing today

80%
0%

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
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $909k · revenue +53%
  • TM
    THE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $265k · revenue +32%
  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $180k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • WP
    WEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

2
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
4
Jewish Institute for National Security of America

The jewish institute for national security of america (jinsa) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing u.s. national security interests in the middle east, of which a critical pillar is a robust…

International
5
Sherit Isroel
6
Jewish War Veterans of the United States

The Organization was granted a charter as a not for profit corporation for patriotic and educational purposes with special concern for the welfare of veterans. The Organization's principal activities consist of protecting the benefits and…

7
The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America Foundation

To support active duty military personnel of the USA, all honorably discharged veterans, and including the physically and mentally wounded as a result of their service. The manner of support can be either directly to the individual or to a…

Public Benefit
8
Belev Echad Inc

Belev echad is an international nonprofit dedicated to restoring the wounded men and women of the idf back to life through physical, medical, legal, emotional, and financial support. our extensive therapies and programs help the soldiers…

Human Services
9
New Jewish Narrative Inc

To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.

International
10
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
11
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
12
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $909,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC — $110,000 · InternationalTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INCTHE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC — $265,000 · Public BenefitTHE MIRYAM INSTIT…JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $180,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH EDUCA…Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation — $65,000 · OtherStephen Si…FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherFISHER HOU…JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $25,000 · OtherJEWISH BRO…WEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $20,000 · ReligionWEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND — $10,000 · Religion
International$1,019,000Public Benefit$265,000Arts & Culture$180,000Other$150,000Human Services$50,000Religion$30,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $909,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC — $265,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $180,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC — $110,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds THE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE
  • Who funds THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds WEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization David & Lucille Robbins Foundation Inc 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
2021222324
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2024

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to David & Lucille Robbins Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to David & Lucille Robbins Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 12 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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