Vermont · Private foundation
James E Robison 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.
- $164k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations James E Robison Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $164k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $149k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $140k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $146k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $124k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $139k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $136k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $133k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haleakala Inc | $193,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Current Inc | $104,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Abbott House | $72,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Thin Man Dance Inc | $63,000 | 9 | 6% |
| The Wooster Group Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Movement Research Inc | $28,500 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc | $21,500 | 9 | 0% |
| New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated | $21,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Copley Hospital Inc | $16,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Good Fun-D Inc | $15,560 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($423k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James E Robison Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Tulgey Wood Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Marta Heflin Foundation · Larsen Fund
How this is measured
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About James E Robison Foundation
- How much does James E Robison Foundation give?
- James E Robison Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $164,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James E Robison Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), Human Services (7%), Education (4%).
- Who are James E Robison Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Haleakala Inc ($193k), The Current Inc ($104k), Abbott House ($72k).
- Does James E Robison Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James E Robison Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James E Robison Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Vermont Council on the Arts Inc, Oakland Foundation Inc.
- Where is James E Robison Foundation based?
- James E Robison Foundation is based in VT.
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