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Robbins Family Foundation

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.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Animals$45kArts & Culture$13kFood & Nutrition$11kEnvironment$10kHuman Services$10kHealth$9kEducation$9kPhilanthropy$2k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH$9,000
MISSOURI GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE$8,500
YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY$8,500
WARRENSBURG CAT ADVOCATES$8,000
ROOTED IN WYOMING$5,500
STL RHYTHM COLLABORATION$5,000
SHERIDAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDA$3,500
WYO THEATER INC$2,500
RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH: $9k → 23%MISSOURI GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE: $9k → 8%STL RHYTHM COLLABORATION: $5k → 8%WARRENSBURG CAT ADVOCATES: $10k → 14%TONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTE: $10k → 10%YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $9k → 9%WARRENSBURG CAT ADVOCATES: $8k → 14%ROOTED IN WYOMING: $6k → 10%RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%SHERIDAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDA: $5k → 10%ROOTED IN WYOMING: $5k → 10%WYO THEATER INC: $5k → 10%SHERIDAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDA: $4k → 10%WYO THEATER INC: $3k → 10%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$63k · 5 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

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

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$63k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YW
    YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue -30%
  • WC
    WARRENSBURG CAT ADVOCATES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k
  • RI
    ROOTED IN WYOMING
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TR
    TONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • BC
    BADLANDS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · 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
The Wyldlife Fund

To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.

Animals
2
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
3
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
4
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
5
Badlands National Park Conservancy

The conservancy, in partnership with the national park service, is dedicated to enriching and preserving forever the wonders and significance of the parks of the badlands of south dakota.

Environment
6
Wisconsin Wildlife Federation Inc

The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.

Environment
7
Wild Montana Action Fund

Wild montana action fund builds the political power necessary for protecting and conserving public lands and wild places across the state by elevating the voices of montanans who cherish our outdoor way of life.

Environment
8
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
9
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
10
Bear Yuba Land Trust

Bear Yuba Land Trust exists to conserve and protect the natural, working, and cultural lands in the Bear and Yuba River watersheds and empower a healthy, resilient community through nature access and education.

Environment
11
Rendezvous Lands Conservancy

To improve the quality of life in rural intermountain west communities by protecting, owning, and creating locally significant keystone conservation properties as public access parks.

Environment
12
Wyoming State Fair Foundation

To ensure that the Wyoming State Fair serves as a vibrant celebration of our states agriculture, youth, education, heritage, and industry, while evolving to meet the needs of future generations. WSFF is the fundraising arm of the WSF,…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary; the most unlike its peers is Badlands Conservation Alliance. 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

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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $18,500 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARYBADLANDS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $10,000 · EnvironmentBADLANDS CONSERVATION ALLIANCEWARRENSBURG CAT ADVOCATES: $18,000 · AnimalsWARRENSBURG CAT ADVOCATESMISSOURI GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE: $8,500 · AnimalsMISSOURI GERMAN SHEPHERD RE…WYO THEATRE INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureWYO THEATRE I…STL RHYTHM COLLABORATIVE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTL RHYTHM CO…ROOTED IN WYOMING: $10,500 · EducationROOTED IN W…Sheridan Community Education Foundation: $8,500 · PhilanthropySheridan Co…RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyRED LODGE A…TONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTONGUE RIV…MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH: $9,000 · HealthMESSENGER…
Environment$28,500Animals$26,500Arts & Culture$12,500Education$10,500Philanthropy$10,500Community Improvement$10,000Health$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $18,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetROOTED IN WYOMING: $10,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBADLANDS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMESSENGERS FOR HEALTH: $9,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMISSOURI GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE: $8,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSheridan Community Education Foundation: $8,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWYO THEATRE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTL RHYTHM COLLABORATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 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.

First Interstate Banc…Homer A Scott & Mildr…American Endowment Fo…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Robbins Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robbins Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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