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Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust

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$3.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
57%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,750,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$21M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsReligionArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$2.1M33%
FY20247$1.3M57%
FY20236$1.4M67%
FY20223$138k33%
FY20212$2.1M0%
FY20205$313k60%
FY20192$395k0%
FY20183$345k33%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$7.0MPhilanthropy$3.1MArts & Culture$615kHealth$270kFood & Nutrition$250kCivil Rights$200kReligion$150kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kansas State University Foundation$5,906,80081%
Flint Hills Christian School Inc$793,86099%
Wareham Hall Renovation Fund$500,000115%
Manhattan Area Technical College Foundation$300,0002n/a
Flinthills Breadbasket Inc$250,00017%
Cornerstone Family Counseling Inc$200,00029%
No Stone Unturned Foundation Inc$200,00015%
Be Able Inc$140,000119%
Oz Museum - Columbian Theatre Foundation Inc$100,00019%
The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation$50,00010%
Meadowlark Hills Foundation$50,00012%
Innovate24 Inc$40,000180%
Pawnee Mental Health Foundation$20,00022%
Flint Hills Praisefest Inc$15,0002n/a
Manhattan Chamber Foundation$10,000126%
Young Life$9,50010%
Homestead Ministries Inc$5,0001n/a
Shepherd's Crossing$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKansas State University Foundation: $5,906,800 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFlint Hills Christian School Inc: $793,860 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetWareham Hall Renovation Fund: $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFlinthills Breadbasket Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCornerstone Family Counseling Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetNo Stone Unturned Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBe Able Inc: $140,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetOz Museum - Columbian Theatre Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMeadowlark Hills Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetInnovate24 Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetPawnee Mental Health Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetManhattan Chamber Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetYoung Life: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Greater Manhattan Community FoundationKS30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · Memorial Hospital Association Inc · Manhattan Fund - Caroline F Peine Charitable · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Marvin S 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 Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust

How much does Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust give?
Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust reported 8 grants totaling $3,325,397 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Philanthropy (27%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kansas State University Foundation ($5.9M), Flint Hills Christian School Inc ($794k), Wareham Hall Renovation Fund ($500k).
Does Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Manhattan Community Foundation, Memorial Hospital Association Inc, Manhattan Fund - Caroline F Peine Charitable.
Where is Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust based?
Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust is based in KS.

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 20 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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