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Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$423k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving17$423k0%
FY202319$407k21%
FY202222$338k27%
FY202113$218k31%
FY202012$229k25%
FY201912$418k8%
FY201821$292k57%
FY201712$313kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$803kRecreation & Sports$516kYouth Development$462kArts & Culture$277kFood & Nutrition$169kHousing & Shelter$126kHealth$113kCommunity Improvement$65kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore$450,00032%
Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc$105,00041%
Richardson Maritime Museum Incorporated$100,000152%
Dorchester Skipjack Committee Inc$86,500822%
Dorchester Center for the Arts Inc$79,50057%
National Outdoor Foundation Inc$38,000746%
One Mission Cambridge Inc$35,00036%
John and Janice Wyatt Foundation$30,00022%
The Pine Street Committee Inc$30,00037%
Dorchester County Historical Society Inc$27,875324%
Midshore Meals Til Monday Inc$25,00023%
Casa of Talbot County Inc$23,50051%
Delmarva Community Services Inc$20,00020%
Mid-Shore Community Radio Inc$18,000135%
Kitty City Rescue$18,0006n/a
Cambridge Community Radio Inc$17,500315%
Courageous Hearts Horsemanship Inc$16,40055%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$15,00010%
Nause-Waiwash Band of Indians Inc$15,0003n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$13,00040%
Cambridge Power Boat Racing Association Inc$13,0002n/a
James G Busick Tennus Foundation Inc$12,0001n/a
Character Counts Mid Shore Inc$12,00042%
Cambridge Lighthouse Foundation Inc$8,50027%
Snip Tuck Inc$5,50027%
Pets on Wheels of Delmarva Inc$2,0002n/a
Faith Baptist Fellowship$1,5002n/a
Harriets House$1,20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore: $450,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Choptank Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetRichardson Maritime Museum Incorporated: $100,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetDorchester Skipjack Committee Inc: $86,500 over 8y, 22% of budgetDorchester Center for the Arts Inc: $79,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetNational Outdoor Foundation Inc: $38,000 over 7y, 46% of budgetOne Mission Cambridge Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetJohn and Janice Wyatt Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Pine Street Committee Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetDorchester County Historical Society Inc: $27,875 over 3y, 24% of budgetMidshore Meals Til Monday Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCasa of Talbot County Inc: $23,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetDelmarva Community Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMid-Shore Community Radio Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCambridge Community Radio Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetCourageous Hearts Horsemanship Inc: $16,400 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCharacter Counts Mid Shore Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCambridge Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSnip Tuck Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetHarriets House: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% 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 22.

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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.

The Nathan Foundation Inc Ima Co Robert SMD43.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Nathan Foundation Inc Ima Co Robert S · Waddell Foundation Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · Maryland Humanities Council Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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About Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust

How much does Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust give?
Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust reported 17 grants totaling $422,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore ($450k), Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc ($105k), Richardson Maritime Museum Incorporated ($100k).
Does Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Nathan Foundation Inc Ima Co Robert S, Waddell Foundation Inc, Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust based?
Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust is based in MD.

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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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