North Carolina · Private foundation
Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $182k
- Granted FY2023
- 19
- Grants FY2023
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Gaston Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $182k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 3
- Total assets, FY2023
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation 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; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 18 | $152k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $136k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $61k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $95k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $106k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $119k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaston Day School Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gaston County Family YMCA | $64,507 | 1 | 1% |
| Covenant Village Inc | $50,169 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Gaston County Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Lake Summit Foundation Inc | $36,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Dream Center Charlotte | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc | $19,700 | 3 | 1% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $15,450 | 4 | 0% |
| Futures Ignite Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaston Day School Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gaston County Family YMCA | $64,507 | 1 | 1% |
| Covenant Village Inc | $50,169 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Gaston County Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Lake Summit Foundation Inc | $36,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Dream Center Charlotte | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc | $19,700 | 3 | 1% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $15,450 | 4 | 0% |
| Futures Ignite Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Trident Technical College Foundation Inc | $11,569 | 1 | 0% |
| Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hospice of Gaston County Inc | $9,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rotary Foundation of Gaston County | $5,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Gas | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Ashley Hall Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium | $3,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Education Foundation | $2,400 | 3 | 16% |
| Green River Volunteer Fire & Rescue | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Gateway Gaston Inc | $1,500 | 3 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($329k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The David Belk Cannon Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Foundation for the Carolinas · The W Duke Kimbrell Family Foundation Co Julia B Singh · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Howe Foundation Inc · The Hendricks-Cox Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation
- How much does Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation give?
- Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $181,807 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Religion (23%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Gaston Day School Inc ($70k), Gaston County Family YMCA ($65k), Covenant Village Inc ($50k).
- Does Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David Belk Cannon Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found.
- Where is Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation based?
- Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation is based in NC.
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