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Ovid D Robinson Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$746kHealth$606kEducation$371kHuman Services$86kCommunity Improvement$40kScience & Tech$25kRecreation & Sports$18kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN PA$64,546
THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$32,273
THE WATSON INSTITUTE$32,273
CARLOW UNIVERSITY$20,000
RUTHS WAY INC$12,500
YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC$12,000
HORSES WITH HOPE$10,825
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $493k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT: $10k → 16%Family Links: $20k → 11%Smart Futures: $7k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $120k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $37k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $35k → 11%WATSON INSTITUTE: $34k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $33k → 11%WATSON INSTITUTE: $33k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $32k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $31k → 11%WATSON INSTITUTE: $30k → 11%Ruth's Way Inc: $16k → 11%RUTHS WAY INC: $13k → 11%The Miracle League of Moon Township: $18k → 11%THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 6 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +182% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
30

Total granted

$1.5M
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+182%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $689k · revenue +182%
  • TW
    THE WATSON INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +272%
  • SH
    SARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $33k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue -38%
  • TC
    THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LABgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +93%
  • HC
    HERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +101%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Children's Institute Parent Company

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
2
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
3
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc

The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh mission is to create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Crime & Legal
4
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
5
Potential Inc

Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.

Human Services
6
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
7
Wee Connect Early Learning Inc

Weeconnect early learning center will provide children and families with inclusive, high-quality childcare that allows them to reach their maximum potential and abilities. we strive to become partners in your child's care and create…

Human Services
8
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
9
Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc

To help people reach their full potential through a rewarding career, meaningful relationships, and an enriching community life. Via creates pathways to success through vocation, inclusion, and advocacy.

Human Services
10
The Childrens Institute Foundation

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Philanthropy
11
Girls Inc of Greater Pittsburgh

Girls inc of greater pittsburgh empowers girls to imagine a broader future through a curriculum grounded on female role models delivered by college women mentors, who are themselves mentored by professional women.

Human Services
12
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Familylinks Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Citizen Science Lab. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community ServicesTheater & Performance Compa…Senior Residential CareCommunity Development and Y…Industry Trade AssociationsClassical Music EnsemblesCharter and Faith-Based Sch…Public Library SystemsPittsburgh Community Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr13%13%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr21%25%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr13%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr21%8%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr13%53%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
10%
2,883/30,057

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $689,176 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVA…+2 more — $29,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE — $340,451 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTESARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $32,500 · OtherSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATIONCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH — $26,814 · OtherCarnegie Library of Homestead — $20,000 · Other+11 more — $117,506 · Other+11 moreTHE WATSON INSTITUTE — $385,067 · Human ServicesTHE WATSON INSTITUTERUTHS WAY INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesRUTHS WAY INCTHE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB — $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILYLINKS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MOON TOWNSHIP — $17,500 · Human Services+2 more — $17,119 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $33,045 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationSTEM CODING LAB INC — $20,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $15,000 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 · EducationOpen Up — $10,000 · EducationHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $20,000 · HealthCANCER BRIDGES — $15,702 · HealthHorses With Hope Inc — $10,825 · HealthACCESSABILITIES INC — $8,405 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH — $5,281 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $5,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $15,000 · InternationalCASA of Allegheny County — $14,976 · Civil Rights
Youth Development$718,176Other$537,271Human Services$492,686Education$113,045Health$65,213International$15,000Civil Rights$14,976

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $689,176 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE — $385,067 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $33,045 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $32,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRUTHS WAY INC — $28,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEM CODING LAB INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILYLINKS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MOON TOWNSHIP — $17,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES — $15,702 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA of Allegheny County — $14,976 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH HIRES VETERANS — $14,885 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHorses With Hope Inc — $10,825 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS — $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACCESSABILITIES INC — $8,405 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMART FUTURES — $7,119 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH — $5,281 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART CREATES US INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…The United Way of Sou…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…James Frances McCandl…Clapp G H Decd Char a…McCune Foundation Pnc…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…Staunton Farm Foundat…Eqt Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA43.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · James Frances McCandless Trust · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Eqt 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 Ovid D 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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