· Private foundation
Robben Foundation Inc
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 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Collective Israel Actie (CIA) - Weizmann Ekard Institute Cancer Research | $804,449 |
| Stepping Stones Wilderness Initiative | $302,643 |
| The Orme School | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Nonceba | $17,475 |
| Stichting Stedelijk Museum Fonds | $11,078 |
| Film Independent | $11,073 |
| Singer MuseumStiching Singer Memorial Foundation | $10,988 |
| Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development | $10,865 |
| Scalesia Foundation | $10,000 |
| Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA) | $7,181 |
| Museum Voorlinden | $5,538 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,538 |
| Collective Israel Actie (CIA) Israeli Philharmonic | $5,000 |
| Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus & Koekkoek Haus Kleve EV Grant | $1,671 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 15% of grant dollars ($1.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 85% that went abroad ($9.8M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 85% of all-years giving ($9.8M)
10 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Bucknell University5× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +34%- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC6× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +38%
- SWSO WHAT ELSE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue ×20
Funded once
- SCStichting Collective Israel Actieone grant, 2018 · $1.7M
- C(CIA (Stichting Collectieve Israel Actie)one grant, 2019 · $1.2M
- C(CIA (Stichting Collective Israel Actie)one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
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.
The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
The bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
Woodward academy provides college preparatory education for students in pre-k through grade 12. woodward intentionally brings together students from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, creating a richer learning community…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
An independent school providing a comprehensive educational program for children from K through 12th grade.
Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…
PISOTA offers students an arts and international-focused school with an innovative, whole-child approach, which prepares young people for leadership in a global and creative world.
Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.
To provide internationally based and grounded instructional programs to children from infancy through middle school.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 105 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robben Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robben Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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