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Robbins Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$520k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$33MEducation$24MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$1.2MReligion$909kRecreation & Sports$817kYouth Development$207kArts & Culture$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$43k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION BETH JUDEA$500,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
SHARING EXCESS INC$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WALK WITH SALLY: $2k → 14%OURPLACE IN NY INC: $10k → 20%GOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $468k → 17%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $375k → 17%JCC MANHATTAN: $274k → 17%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $250k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $25k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
AZ
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Robbins Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 71%.

Robbins Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57M · 22 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
26

Total granted

$57M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+21%

Still filing today

73%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $24M · revenue +49%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $9.0M · revenue +39%
  • RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $3.1M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +47%
  • SH
    SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $450k · revenue +21%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH NORTH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $400k · revenue 0%
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
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
The Teak Fellowship Inc

To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.

Human Services
11
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
12
New Visions for Public Schools Inc

Improving the quality of education in nyc public schools and ensuring that all students have access to effective schools that enable them to graduate from high school fully prepared for college and career.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nhl Alumni Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $23,500,400 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $9,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF…+2 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $3,100,000 · EducationRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUC…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…ZEARN: $3,000,000 · EducationZEARNARRAY EDUCATION INC: $2,200,000 · EducationARRAY EDUCATION INCKIPP NYC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $1,195,940 · EducationKIPP NYC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOO…RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $1,100,000 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCTeach for America Inc: $800,715 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $602,000 · Education+4 more: $1,210,000 · Education+4 moreKIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc: $4,500,000 · OtherKIPP Inc dba Know…KIPP NYC: $3,219,555 · OtherKIPP NYCCONGREGATION BETH JUDEA: $617,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH…Individual grant recipient: $330,000 · Other+19 more: $1,054,500 · Other+19 moreIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc: $1,200,000 · HealthCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $300,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $250,000 · Health+3 more: $20,000 · HealthTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $1,366,604 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $50,000 · Human Services+3 more: $32,000 · Human ServicesPALM BEACH NORTH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · Recreation & SportsIMENTOR INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentNHL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$32,520,400Education$16,208,655Other$9,721,055Health$1,770,000Human Services$1,448,604Recreation & Sports$400,000Youth Development$175,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $23,500,400 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $9,000,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetKIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc: $4,500,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $3,100,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZEARN: $3,000,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetARRAY EDUCATION INC: $2,200,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $1,366,604 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc: $1,200,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetKIPP NYC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $1,195,940 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $800,715 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $602,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $500,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $450,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH NORTH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $300,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetICE HOCKEY IN HARLEM INC: $51,700 over 2y, 12% of budgetMORASHA OLAMI INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNHL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECLC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Children's Charities: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPORTFOLIOS WITH PURPOSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOUR PLACE IN NY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALK WITH SALLY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Carnegie Corporation …Silicon Valley Commun…New Schools FundFjcGates FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Communal FundNY18.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Schools Fund · Fjc · Gates Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Robbins Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robbins Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Zearn: 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 53 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home