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Richard and Betti Robinson Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Richard and Betti Robinson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$57kHuman Services$28kEducation$10kHealth$10kPhilanthropy$6kAnimals$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$184k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION$25,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION$6,000
THE ESTANCIA FOUNDATION$5,000
CASTLE PINES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
RYAN HOUSE$5,000
NORFOLK ARTS CENTER$4,000
ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION$4,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 9%RYAN HOUSE: $5k → 11%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $5k → 11%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $5k → 11%THE ESTANCIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%Selfless Love Foundation: $3k → 11%ESTANCIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$129k · 5 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$129k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • NA
    Norfolk Arts Center
    2× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +5%
  • SL
    SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +66%
  • RH
    RYAN HOUSE
    3× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +139%
  • NF
    NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -53%
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.

1
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
2
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Northeast Academy

To provide a secondary education for children

Education
7
National Foundation for Autism Research

The National Foundation for Autism Research (NFAR) is dedicated to improving the lives of autistic individuals by empowering them with equitable opportunities that promote independence, inclusion, and lifelong success, thereby…

Health
8
Educational Foundation South Carolina Bankers Association

To aid banking education by providing scholarships to college students.

—
9
New England Legal Foundation

New england legal foundation (nelf) is the leading non-profit public interest law firm in the region addressing policy and constitutional concerns related to free enterprise. its mission is promoting public discourse on the proper role of…

Civil Rights
10
Epilepsy Foundation of Northcentral Illinois Inc

The epilepsy foundation will ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences; and will prevent, control and cure epilepsy through services, education, advocacy and research.

—
11
Amherst College Trustees

Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Folds of Honor Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Animal Shelter of Northeast Nebraska Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INCRYAN HOUSE: $15,000 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSETHE ESTANCIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE ESTANCIA FOUNDATIONNorfolk Arts Center: $54,435 · Arts & CultureNorfolk Arts CenterMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ARTTHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $12,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDER…NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA: $10,000 · OtherNORFOLK FAMILY Y…ANIMAL SHELTER OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA INC: $2,000 · OtherANIMAL SHELTER O…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationFOLDS OF H…CASTLE PINES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationCASTLE PIN…ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Health
Human Services$63,000Arts & Culture$61,435Other$24,000Education$15,000Health$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorfolk Arts Center: $54,435 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ESTANCIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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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 Richard and Betti Robinson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Betti Robinson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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