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Robbins Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2021
64
Grants FY2021
21
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Robbins Family Foundation Inc’s FY2026 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Robbins Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 35 organizations, $30k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

34
’17
45
’18
46
’19
49
’20
35
’21
18
’22
1
’24
0
’26

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.3MEducation$66kArts & Culture$35kHealth$30kReligion$28kInternational$13kHuman Services$11kAnimals$9kOther$0
02FY2021 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
21
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$4,000
C ROBINSON SOCIETY$2,500
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$2,000
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,050
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC$900
CHARITY WATER$750
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$700
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$700
OPERATION FAMILY HOME$650
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$600
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION$500
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$500
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 (FY17–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OASIS CENTER: $450 → 14%KIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $600 → 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $200 → 12%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $600 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $300 → 11%KIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $101 → 12%AMERICAN ACTION FUND FOR BLIND CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $200 → 19%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $200 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 9%MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $200 → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $200 → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $250 → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE INC: $250 → 14%PROJECT EZRA: $600 → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $600 → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $300 → 17%DOROT: $950 → 17%DOROT: $400 → 17%DOROT: $250 → 17%DOROT: $150 → 17%DOROT: $150 → 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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 73 repeat orgs$932k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2021, 35 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
95

Total granted

$183k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+24%

Still filing today

74%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
    2× · 2018–2022 · $21k · revenue +31%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +50%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BROWN SANCTUARY ANIMAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -42%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -22%
  • BD
    BRIGHTER DAY RECOVERY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
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
2
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
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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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6
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
9
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
10
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
11
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Brighter Day Recovery 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

117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 117 of the 204 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/117
Grantees still filing
88/117
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - SECURITIES: $880,610 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - SECURITIES+133 more: $135,347 · Other+133 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $400,101 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABL…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $100 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $21,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $10,500 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · Education+8 more: $4,700 · EducationHARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,850 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,450 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Association: $1,900 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $1,850 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,145 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $1,100 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $950 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $3,270 · Arts & CultureVanderbilt University Medical Center: $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,750 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $1,550 · HealthTHE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 · HealthST JUDE HOSPITAL: $1,150 · HealthMEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE: $900 · HealthVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $650 · Health+13 more: $3,400 · HealthAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,300 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $1,050 · InternationalOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $1,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $1,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $650 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $450 · International+6 more: $1,550 · InternationalTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,850 · Philanthropy+2 more: $450 · Philanthropy
Other$1,015,957Community Improvement$420,701Education$38,700Arts & Culture$27,015Health$15,900International$13,000Philanthropy$9,300

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $400,101 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $2,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $1,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $1,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $1,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProject Ezra: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANBY ROD AND GUN CLUB: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $1,401 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE HOSPITAL: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,145 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $700 over 3y, 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.

The Blum Family Found…The Steven & Laurie E…The Annette & Irwin E…The Joel C & Bernice …Msb Cockayne Fund IncEbs FoundationMemorial Foundation I…Doochin Family Charit…The Wade-Buntin Famil…Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Community Foundat…Hca Healthcare Founda…
The Blum Family FoundationTN24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blum Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Ebs Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Doochin Family Charitable Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare 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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robbins Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Canby Rod and Gun Club: 2% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 204 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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