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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| 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 |
| ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE | $15,000 |
| MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY | $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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 79% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +150%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +145%
- DSDORCHESTER SKIPJACK COMMITTEE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- RMRICHARDSON MARITIME MUSEUM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -60% · 52% of their budget
- JBJAMES B RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $35k
- MCMid-Shore Community Radio Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +935% · 35% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.
To promote business and community growth in the dorchester county area and programs of a civic, social, or cultural nature.
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…
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
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.
Our mission is to document and provide education to promote the chincoteague & assateague islands' people, culture, and heritage.
Greater chesapeake charitable foundation's mission is to improve the physical and financial wellness of marylanders in need by volunteering time and donating resources.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 43 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARDSON MARITIME MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER SKIPJACK COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds National Outdoor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINE STREET COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN AND JANICE WYATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Shore Community Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS HEARTS HORSEMANSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARACTER COUNTS MID SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES G BUSICK TENNUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SNIP TUCK INC ↗
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.
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
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 Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dorchester Center for the Arts Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
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.