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Mary H Robinson Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$92kReligion$56kCommunity Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600
Median grant
5
States reached
$542k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$9,310
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY$5,320
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA$3,000
OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,800
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY$1,200
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$600
COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS$600
SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$600
EVANGEL UNIVERSITY$600
UNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$600
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY$600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%UNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $600 → 16%JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $600 → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $688 → 17%MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $520 → 5%PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 18%COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $600 → 14%CROWDER COLLEGE: $1k → 15%OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MO KANSAS CITY: $750 → 15%MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECH: $520 → 16%BOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $19k → 18%COLORADO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $520 → 7%JUDSON UNIVERSITY: $688 → 8%LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY: $688 → 32%JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $765 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $600 → 17%OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 15%BOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST: $13k → 18%JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $688 → 8%OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 15%BOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $9k → 18%OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 15%BOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST: $9k → 18%DRURY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%BOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $9k → 18%DRURY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%BOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $9k → 18%DRURY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%BOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $9k → 18%DRURY UNIVERSITY: $688 → 15%SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%DRURY UNIVERSITY: $686 → 15%SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%EVANGEL UNIVERSITY: $600 → 15%SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1k → 18%SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $980 → 18%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%BOLIVAR TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $688 → 18%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $600 → 18%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MA
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CO
MO
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AL
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FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$161k · 17 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$161k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+18%

Still filing today

41%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

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

  • SB
    SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +22%
  • DU
    Drury University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +12%
  • JB
    JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • PS
    PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MO KANSAS CITY
    one grant, 2019 · $750
  • BT
    BOLIVAR TECHNICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $688
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
Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…

Education
2
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
3
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

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4
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
5
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
6
Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education
7
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
8
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
9
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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10
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
11
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
12
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is John Brown University; the most unlike its peers is Southwest Baptist University. 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

10 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. 10 of the 31 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $55,936 · OtherBOLIVAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCHMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $29,553 · OtherMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $21,953 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA: $13,840 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIAOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7,580 · Other+16 more: $13,669 · Other+16 moreSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $13,863 · EducationSOUTHWEST BAPTIST …Drury University: $4,659 · EducationDrury UniversityJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,143 · EducationJOHN BROWN UNIVERS…JUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION: $1,188 · EducationEvangel University: $1,120 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $1,090 · EducationCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · Education+3 more: $1,540 · Education+3 more
Other$142,531Education$27,603

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $13,863 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDrury University: $4,659 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,143 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION: $1,188 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvangel University: $1,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $1,090 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Christian University: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $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.

  • Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Drury University ↗
  • Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds Evangel University ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
  • Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗

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.

T Michal Flottman Scholarship TrustMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Mary H Robinson Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary H Robinson Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Babson College: 0% of 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 · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Mary H Robinson 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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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