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George a Robinson IV Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$740kArts & Culture$425kEducation$300kAnimals$46kRecreation & Sports$40kPublic Benefit$8k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS MUSIC PROJECT$50,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$50,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF$40,000
KNIESTEDT FOUNDATION$8,000
TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION$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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SMILE TRAIN INC: $20k → 17%THE TEXAS MUSIC PROJECT: $100k → 11%SPCA OF TEXAS: $26k → 14%TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%KNIESTEDT FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%AMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF: $40k → 16%TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION: $25k → 21%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%SMILE TRAIN INC: $15k → 17%THE TEXAS MUSIC PROJECT: $75k → 11%SPCA OF TEXAS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF: $40k → 16%TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION: $5k → 21%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%SMILE TRAIN INC: $15k → 17%THE TEXAS MUSIC PROJECT: $50k → 11%AMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF: $40k → 16%TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION: $5k → 21%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%SMILE TRAIN INC: $15k → 17%THE TEXAS MUSIC PROJECT: $50k → 11%AMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF: $40k → 16%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%THE TEXAS MUSIC PROJECT: $50k → 11%AMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF: $40k → 16%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%THE TEXAS MUSIC PROJECT: $50k → 11%AMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF: $40k → 16%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%TEXAS MUSIC PROJECT: $50k → 11%AMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF: $40k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $80k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $20k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $20k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $20k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $20k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15k → 16%HARRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $20k → 16%HARRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $20k → 16%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.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$1.6M
$8k

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • TM
    Texas Music Project Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $425k · revenue +101% · 84% of their budget
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +54%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    7× · 2019–2025 · $260k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • KF
    KNIESTEDT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $8k

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
Texas Healthcare Trustees

Tht provides research and recognizes health care trustees and organizations that excel in governance, education, and service.

Health
2
The McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education
3
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To provide professional investment management and related services for the funds under management and control of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System.

Education
4
Texas Children's Health Plan

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
5
Main Street Community Initiatives

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
6
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
7
Texas Medical Association

Empowering texas physicians in the practice of medicine.

8
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to residents of the Central Texas region since 2013.

Health
9
Texas Children's Urgent Care

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
10
Children's Health System of Texas

Dedicated to making life better for children.

Health
11
Texas Health Resources

Through its affiliates, THR operates an integrated healthcare system with services and facilities throughout north central texas to improve healthcare.

Health
12
Texas Heart Medical Group

To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Smile Train Inc. 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

7 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. 7 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Texas A&M Foundation — $300,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationBaylor College of Medicine — $260,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineTEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · EducationTEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATIONTexas Music Project Inc — $425,000 · Arts & CultureTexas Music Project IncAMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF — $280,000 · OtherAMERICAN MEDICAL DEBT RELIEFSMILE TRAIN INC — $65,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCHARRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT — $40,000 · OtherHARRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTR…+1 more — $8,000 · OtherTexas Children's Hospital — $95,000 · HealthSPCA of Texas — $46,000 · Animals
Education$600,000Arts & Culture$425,000Other$393,000Health$95,000Animals$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTexas Music Project Inc — $425,000 over 7y, 84% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $260,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA of Texas — $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% 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 Texas Music Project Inc
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds SPCA of Texas
  • Who funds TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization George a Robinson IV 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to George a Robinson IV Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to George a Robinson IV 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 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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