· Private foundation
Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $45,000 |
| GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY GASTONIA | $20,000 |
| MAYLO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $11,569 |
| COVENANT VILLAGE | $11,569 |
| TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $11,569 |
| GASTON DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COASTAL CRISIS CHAPLAINCY | $10,000 |
| DREAM CENTER CHARLOTTE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GASTON COUNTY INC | $6,000 |
| LAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GASTON HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $600 |
| GREEN RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE | $500 |
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, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- GDGASTON DAY SCHOOL INC4× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +32%
- CVCOVENANT VILLAGE INC5× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +47%
- LSLAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- GCGaston County Family YMCAone grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue -17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $15k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Gordon college strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The mission of the gaston college foundation, inc. is to raise, invest, administer and disburse funds exclusively for charitable, scientific or educational purposes for the benefit of gaston college.
Goucher charter academy's mission is believing in nurturing the whole child through leadership and community service.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The mission of gaston christian school is to help students mature spiritually and excel academically by offering a biblically integrated, college-preparatory program that will enable them to impact the kingdom of god by living productive…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gaston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GASTON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Gaston County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds COVENANT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FUTURES IGNITE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BISHOP GADSDEN EPISCOPAL RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF GASTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ↗
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 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
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 Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation 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.
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.
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