· Charitable trust
Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,750,000 |
| GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,210,397 |
| FLINT HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $185,000 |
| CORNERSTONE FAMILY COUNSELING | $100,000 |
| MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE KANSAS RURAL COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE MANHATTAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +107%
- FHFLINT HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $794k · revenue +143%
- CFCORNERSTONE FAMILY COUNSELING INC2× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- WHWAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +207%
- FBFLINTHILLS BREADBASKET INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +50%
- NSNO STONE UNTURNED FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -5%
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.
Receive gifts, bequests and donations to be held in trust to invest and administer for charitable, religious and educational use to maintain and further the programs and missions of the united methodist church and churches related to the…
The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, educating and connecting donors to community needs they care about, and leading on critical…
Building stronger communities through charitable giving.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
Support of first united methodist church of manhattan, ks inc.
To strengthen the university and communities that have touched the lives of wu alumni and friends, the mission of the washburn university charitable gift fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
To raise and maintain funds to support mental health care for persons in the Greater Manchester, NH area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Manhattan Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is INNOVATE24 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 20 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 KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLINT HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Manhattan Area Technical College Foundation ↗
- Who funds FLINTHILLS BREADBASKET INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FAMILY COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds NO STONE UNTURNED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BE ABLE INC ↗
- Who funds OZ MUSEUM - COLUMBIAN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds INNOVATE24 INC ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS RURAL COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S CROSSING ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · Memorial Hospital Association Inc · Manhattan Fund - Caroline F Peine Charitable · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust 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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