· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $11,569 |
| MAYLO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $11,569 |
| COVENANT VILLAGE | $11,569 |
| GASTON DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| COASTAL CRISIS CHAPLAINCY | $10,000 |
| DREAM CENTER CHARLOTTE | $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 |
| THE SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -17% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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