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James Barry Robinson Institute
The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $2,051,246 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,101,439 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,193 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Next Step To Success | $1,976,246 |
| James Barry Robinson Home for Boys Trust | $75,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of James Barry Robinson Institute’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 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
- JBJames Barry Robinson Institute3× · 2023–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +9%
- NSNext Step to Success3× · 2023–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +321% · 86% of their budget
- JBJAMES BARRY-ROBINSON HOME FOR BOYS TRUST2× · 2018–2021 · $2.1M · revenue +115% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- BOBASILICA OF ST MARYone grant, 2020 · $18k
- NMNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -29%
- SPSAINT PIUS X CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Barry-Robinson Schools of Norfolk is a non-stock, nonprofit Virginia-based corporation chartered in 2001. The organization is supported, supervised, and controlled by James Barry-Robinson Home for Boys Trust and was organized to construct…
The Military Family Resource Fund Mid Atlantic (MFRFMA) exists to support, encourage and honor the military, their families, communities and associated organizations.
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
Child care aware of america (ccaoa) is the only national organization that supports every part of the child care system. together with an on-the-ground network of child care resource and referral (ccr&r) organizations working in states and…
Provide services, events and activities for military service members, retirees and their families. provide family services, family education and deployment support to military community
Support recovering combat veterans & their families utilizing service dog training/placement.
Dedicated to developing American military cyber professionals and investing in our nations future through science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.
The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Military Family Association and the most unlike its peers is Mercy Medical Angels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 James Barry Robinson Institute ↗
- Who funds Next Step to Success ↗
- Who funds JAMES BARRY-ROBINSON HOME FOR BOYS TRUST ↗
- Who funds Mercy Medical Angels ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF DEFENSE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PATRICK CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL AIRLINES FOR VETERANS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 James Barry Robinson Institute 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.
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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