· Private foundation
J William & Elizabeth S Robinson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $246k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE | $45,000 |
| ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $32,500 |
| PEACHTREE ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $26,000 |
| THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS | $22,500 |
| NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEWBORN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| GIVEWELL MAXIMUM IMPACT FUND | $15,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $10,000 |
| GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TWThe Westminster Schools Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +43%
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +244%
- SBSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +418%
Funded once
Washington and Lee Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +54%- BHBREAKTHRU HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -42%
- CACARPINTERIA ARTS CENTERone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sturdivant Museum Association Sturdivant Museum Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 79 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Gallatin River Task Force ↗
- Who funds SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHRU HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Covington First United Methodist Church Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVISIONEERS INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Stone Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The McIntyre Foundation · Giles 2000 Tr Dba Giles Family Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · J Bulow Campbell 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 J William & Elizabeth S Robinson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
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.
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