· Private foundation
Robbins 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k15 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE GALLERY | $30,000 |
| BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FND | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| NYPL | $10,000 |
| STREET THEATRE | $8,000 |
| STUDIO IN A SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| BRONX ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DANCE | $5,000 |
| UBUNTU FOOTBALL | $5,000 |
| EAST END HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| THE CHAPIN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| LUNAR CITY ARTS | $2,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| FREE ARTS NYC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Robbins Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2026, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART3× · 2018–2022 · $150k · revenue +58%
- TCTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD9× · 2017–2026 · $81k · revenue +19%
- BSBROOKS SCHOOL6× · 2018–2026 · $73k · revenue +59%
Funded once
WNETone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -22%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2025 · $2k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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…
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 43 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.
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds East End Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR AVILES TYPICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Lenox Hill Hospital ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
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 Robbins Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robbins Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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