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Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Foundation at a glance

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Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins 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.

$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$3.1MEducation$1.6MFood & Nutrition$500kArts & Culture$150k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$100,000
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$100,000
HNRCA AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY$100,000
SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$100,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HNRCA AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $100k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $100k → 14%THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE HEALTH: $100k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $125k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%HNRCA AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: $100k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $100k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $100k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%HNRCA AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $100k → 10%USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%HNRCA AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $100k → 10%USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%HNRCA AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $100k → 10%USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%HNRCA AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $100k → 10%USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $175k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $175k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 10 repeat orgs$550k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$4.0M
$550k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
+27%

Still filing today

40%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +505%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    2× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +34%
  • PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +27%
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +72%
  • US
    UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
10
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
11
Staten Island University Hospital

Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
12
John T Mather Memorial Hospital

John t. mather memorial hospital ("mather") is a non-profit community hospital that is part of northwell health. mather strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jupiter Medical Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $600,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYHNRCA AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · OtherHNRCA AT TUFTS UNIVERSITYUSC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $600,000 · OtherUSC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAWEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · OtherWEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $600,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 · OtherSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER+3 more: $300,000 · Other+3 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,475,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSI…SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PEN…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $200,000 · HealthJupiter Medical Center Inc: $100,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $125,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,600,000Education$1,775,000Health$425,000Arts & Culture$150,000Philanthropy$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,475,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSchool of the Arts Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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