· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k19 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Episcopal Church Good Shepherd | $17,200 |
| Evangelical Child and Family Services | $3,000 |
| Tidewell Hospice | $2,800 |
| Youth For Christ | $2,500 |
| Children First | $2,500 |
| Shriners Hospital | $2,000 |
| St Judes | $2,000 |
| Salvation Army | $1,500 |
| Wounded Warrior | $1,500 |
| Tunnel To Towers | $1,500 |
| Moffit Cancer Center | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| Florida Sheriffs Youth | $500 |
| Youth For Christ Sarasota | $500 |
| Heifer International | $320 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Children First Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +3%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +78%- THTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- STSt Thomasone grant, 2020 · $300
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300 · revenue +45%
- SCSarasota County Food Bank All Faithsone grant, 2020 · $200
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.
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.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John H Robinson and Barbara J Robinson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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