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James Barry Robinson Institute

The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.0M
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$5.6MYouth Development$5.1MEducation$2.1MHealth$282kReligion$28kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $2,051,246, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,101,439 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,193 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$1,976,246
Median grant
1
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Next Step To Success$1,976,246
James Barry Robinson Home for Boys Trust$75,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JAMES BARRY ROBINSON HOME FOR BOYS TRUST: $4.5M → 19%JAMES BARRY ROBINSON HOME FOR BOYS TRUST: $1.0M → 19%James Barry Robinson Home for Boys Trust: $75k → 19%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of James Barry Robinson Institute’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 0%.

James Barry Robinson Institutelessmore 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 7 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$13M
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

100%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JB
    James Barry Robinson Institute
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +9%
  • NS
    Next Step to Success
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +321% · 86% of their budget
  • JB
    JAMES BARRY-ROBINSON HOME FOR BOYS TRUST
    2× · 2018–2021 · $2.1M · revenue +115% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • BO
    BASILICA OF ST MARY
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
  • NM
    NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -29%
  • SP
    SAINT PIUS X CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Military Family Building Coalition
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2
Barry-Robinson Schools of Norfolk

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…

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3
Network for Exceptional Military Families
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4
Military Family Resource Fund Mid Atlantic Inc

The Military Family Resource Fund Mid Atlantic (MFRFMA) exists to support, encourage and honor the military, their families, communities and associated organizations.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
6
Child Care Aware of America

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…

Human Services
7
Norad and Usnorthcom Enlisted Council
Public Benefit
8
National Institute of Military Justice
Human Services
9
Robins Airman and Family Readiness Activities Council

Provide services, events and activities for military service members, retirees and their families. provide family services, family education and deployment support to military community

Public Benefit
10
Warrior Canine Connection Inc

Support recovering combat veterans & their families utilizing service dog training/placement.

Human Services
11
Military Cyber Professionals Assn Inc

Dedicated to developing American military cyber professionals and investing in our nations future through science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

Education
12
Marine Corps Association

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Military Family Association; 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.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Next Step to Success: $5,066,159 · EducationNext Step to SuccessJAMES BARRY-ROBINSON HOME FOR BOYS TRUST: $2,060,000 · EducationJAMES BARRY-ROBINSON HOME FOR BOYS TRUST+3 more: $48,047 · EducationJames Barry Robinson Institute: $5,575,000 · Human ServicesJames Barry Robinson InstituteMercy Medical Angels: $277,030 · HealthTHE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS: $20,000 · HealthBASILICA OF ST MARY: $17,500 · OtherSAINT PIUS X CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10,320 · OtherUS ARMY: $7,500 · OtherHOLLA INC: $6,000 · OtherANGEL AIRLINES FOR VETERANS: $5,000 · OtherBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Education$7,174,206Human Services$5,575,000Health$297,030Other$46,320Public Benefit$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJames Barry Robinson Institute: $5,575,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetNext Step to Success: $5,066,159 over 3y, 86% of budgetJAMES BARRY-ROBINSON HOME FOR BOYS TRUST: $2,060,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetMercy Medical Angels: $277,030 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF DEFENSE COMMUNITIES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization James Barry Robinson Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Barry Robinson Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    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 · 0–20%
    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 James Barry Robinson Institute?

    Find your warmest path to James Barry Robinson Institute 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 15 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 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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