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John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust

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.

$41k
Granted FY2021
20
Grants FY2021
20
Organizations funded FY2021
40%
First-time grantees FY2021
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94% of John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $41k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
5
’21
2
’22
3
’23
4
’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$17,200
Organizations funded a year
15 to 20
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 40% of the organizations John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202120$41k40%
FY202015$43kn/a
79% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.1MReligion$92kHealth$50kYouth Development$48kHuman Services$35kInternational$26kEmployment$3kEducation$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
SD
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
AR
TN
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($239k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust 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.

About John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust

How much does John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust give?
John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $40,820 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (79%), Religion (6%), Health (3%).
Who are John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children First Inc ($23k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($19k), Tidewell Hospice Inc ($18k).
Does John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust 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.
Where is John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust based?
John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust is based in IL.

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 33 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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