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Jack and Barbara Robbins 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.

$267k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$242k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Animals$303kHealth$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kPublic Benefit$500
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $242k
$242,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$176k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELMAR FARM$242,000
WAR PAWS INC$25,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $500 → 9%SECOND CHANCES FOR BLIND DOGS: $250 → 14%WAR PAWS INC: $25k → 7%FARM SANCTUARY: $200 → 12%SPCA INTERNATIONAL: $100 → 17%PILOTS TO THE RESCUE: $300 → 20%FOUR CORNERS EQUINE RESCUE: $1k → 22%HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 14%PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $5k → 11%DREAM CHASERS HORSE RESCUE & REBAHILITATION: $4k → 15%K9 GLOBAL RESCUE: $5k → 12%MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT: $500 → 5%PETA: $800 → 19%LITTLE LONG EARS MINI DONKEY RESCUE: $500 → 6%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $1k → 14%PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $3k → 11%PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE: $3k → 14%PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $3k → 11%PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $1k → 11%PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $1k → 11%ST MARK'S ESPICAPAL CHURCH: $2k → 11%FURRY FRIENDS: $500 → 11%THE PET COTTAGE: $500 → 11%EAST COAST RABBIT RESCUE: $2k → 11%DELMAR FARM: $242k → 11%DELMAR FARM: $5k → 11%BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE: $500 → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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3
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
4
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
5
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
6
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
7
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
8
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
9
Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals
10
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
11
Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

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12
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca International Inc and the most unlike its peers is East Coast Rabbit Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%5%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%40%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr9%20%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%8%<5yr16%82%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr15%1%20–35yr9%1%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/103,024

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.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DELMAR FARM SANCTUARY INC — $247,000 · AnimalsDELMAR FARM SANCTUARY INCPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $12,100 · Animals+14 more — $18,100 · Animals+14 moreWAR PAWS — $25,000 · OtherWAR PAWSST MARK'S ESPICAPAL CHURCH — $2,000 · OtherST MARK'S …+2 more — $750 · OtherPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $2,500 · HealthPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $500 · Public BenefitMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Animals$277,200Other$27,750Health$2,500Public Benefit$500Philanthropy$500

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 budgetDELMAR FARM SANCTUARY INC — $247,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $12,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMCHASER PMU HORSE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHumane World for Animals International — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR CORNERS EQUINE RESCUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LONGEARS MINI DONKEY RESCUE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPet Cottage Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Edwin D Marks Animal …Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Edwin D Marks Animal FoundationDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Jack and Barbara Robbins 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 23 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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