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.

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.

Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust

Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

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 2024.

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

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $25k
$10k–50k10 grants · $148k
$50k–250k2 grants · $250k

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE	$200,000
DORCHESTER COUNTY FAMILY YMCA	$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK	$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$20,000
JOHN & JANICE WYATT FOUNDATION	$15,000
MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY	$15,000
ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE	$15,000
DORCHESTER SKIPJACK COMMITTEE INC	$15,000
DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC	$12,500
CASA OF THE MID-SHORE	$10,000
DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC	$10,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC	$10,000
CAMBRIDGECAMBRIDGE POWER BOAT RACING ASSOC INC	$8,000
NATIONAL OUTDOOR FOUNDATION INC	$6,000
KITTY CITY RESCUE INC	$5,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 79%.

Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trustlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 32 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

Still filing today

53%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementAnimalsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

TB
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE
3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +150%
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +145%
DS
DORCHESTER SKIPJACK COMMITTEE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +96%

Funded once

RM
RICHARDSON MARITIME MUSEUM INCORPORATED
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -60% · 52% of their budget
JB
JAMES B RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $35k
MC
Mid-Shore Community Radio Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +935% · 35% of their budget

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.

Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum Inc

To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.

Arts & Culture

Dorchester Chamber of Commerce Inc

To promote business and community growth in the dorchester county area and programs of a civic, social, or cultural nature.

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Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc

Arts & Culture

Dorchester County Public Library Inc

Residents of county will receive accurate information in various formats through the dorchester county public library. this information will successfully address residents' high priority education, recreation, and informational needs in a…

Education

Maryland Technology Museum Inc

Arts & Culture

Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc

The annapolis maritime museum educates youth and adults about the annapolis areas rich maritime heritage and the ecology of the chesapeake bay through programs, exhibits, and community events. continued on schedule o

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Cape Cod Maritime Museuminc

To establish and operate a maritime museum and visitor hospitality center near hyannis harbor, in hyannis, massachusetts, and to conduct such other activities and programs in furtherance of the foregoing purposes.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Chincoteague Island Inc

Our mission is to document and provide education to promote the chincoteague & assateague islands' people, culture, and heritage.

Arts & Culture

Greater Chesapeake Foundation Inc

Greater chesapeake charitable foundation's mission is to improve the physical and financial wellness of marylanders in need by volunteering time and donating resources.

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Middle Patuxent Environmental Foundation

Philanthropy

Chesapeake Childrens Museum Inc

Our mission is to create an environment of discovery about oneself, the peoples, the technologies and the ecologies of the Chesapeake Bay area for all children and the child in us all.

Arts & Culture

Baltimore County Historical Society Inc

The Historical Society of Baltimore County Collects, Preserves and Interprets the Rich History of Baltimore County for the Education and Enjoyment of Present and Future Generations.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is James G Busick Tennus Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/24

Grantees still filing

14/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,660,000Youth Development$450,000Arts & Culture$358,375Human Services$71,400Community Improvement$42,000Philanthropy$38,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home