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Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust

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$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.0M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 MANHATTAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION$10,000
THE KANSAS RURAL COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION$10,000
PAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHEPHERD'S CROSSING: $5k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 6 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$7.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +107%
  • FH
    FLINT HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $794k · revenue +143%
  • CF
    CORNERSTONE FAMILY COUNSELING INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • WH
    WAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +207%
  • FB
    FLINTHILLS BREADBASKET INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +50%
  • NS
    NO STONE UNTURNED FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Kansas Methodist Foundation Inc

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…

Religion
2
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
3
Central Kansas Community Foundation

Building stronger communities through charitable giving.

Philanthropy
4
Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas

The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.

Philanthropy
5
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
6
Kansas Food Bank Foundation Inc

To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.

Food & Nutrition
7
Kansas Wesleyan University Foundation

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.

Education
8
First United Methodist Church of Manhattan Ks Inc Foundation

Support of first united methodist church of manhattan, ks inc.

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9
Washburn University Charitable Gift Fund

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…

Education
10
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
11
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
12
Manchester Mental Health Foundation

To raise and maintain funds to support mental health care for persons in the Greater Manchester, NH area.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Manhattan Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,906,800 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONFLINT HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $793,860 · EducationFLINT HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCManhattan Area Technical College Foundation: $300,000 · Education+1 more: $40,000 · EducationGREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,021,372 · PhilanthropyGREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…WAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUND: $500,000 · PhilanthropyWAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUNDNO STONE UNTURNED FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFLINTHILLS BREADBASKET INC: $250,000 · Food & NutritionCORNERSTONE FAMILY COUNSELING INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsBE ABLE INC: $140,000 · ReligionOZ MUSEUM - COLUMBIAN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation: $50,000 · HealthPAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthTHE KANSAS RURAL COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherMANHATTAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFLINT HILLS PRAISEFEST INC: $15,000 · OtherHOMESTEAD MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE: $9,500 · OtherSHEPHERD'S CROSSING: $5,000 · Other
Education$7,040,660Philanthropy$3,771,372Food & Nutrition$250,000Civil Rights$200,000Religion$140,000Arts & Culture$100,000Health$70,000Other$74,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetGREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,021,372 over 6y, 1.9% 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 budgetTHE KANSAS RURAL COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% 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
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.

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 Com…Memorial Hospital Ass…Manhattan Fund - Caro…Raymond James Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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