How much did ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$330MHuman Services$198MHealth$70MCrime & Legal$62MCommunity Improvement$53MEmployment$45MHousing & Shelter$42MPhilanthropy$35MFood & Nutrition$21MOther$257M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

healthchildreneducationstudentshousingsocialcare

2020

healtheducationcaresocialyouthchildrenhousing

2021

poverty relief

2022

poverty relief

2023

poverty relief

2024

poverty relief

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 249 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k6 grants · $138k
$50k–250k82 grants · $12M
$250k+161 grants · $114M

$309,008

Median grant

States reached

$334M

Total assets

Largest grants

RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$5,356,000
RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$4,157,500
THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC$3,146,951
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$2,943,760
KIPP NEW YORK$2,120,500
NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION$2,103,000
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY$2,050,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC$2,000,000
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST$1,700,000
GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES$1,670,000
FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK$1,650,000
BRONXWORKS$1,645,000
ALL OUR KIN INC$1,600,000
LEAP INC$1,526,000
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER NETWORK INC$1,500,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $188.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1B · 432 repeat orgs$63M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

432 repeat relationships — 206 still active in FY2024, 226 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

432

483

Total granted

$1.1B

$55M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+53%

Still filing today

91%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

TS
The Stella and Charles Guttman Community College
8× · 2017–2024 · $34M · revenue +7%
CA
Children's Aid Society
8× · 2017–2024 · $20M · revenue +33%
LI
LEAP INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +270%

Funded once

SF
SCO FAMILY OF SERVICESgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue +82%
JI
JUSTICE INNOVATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $1.9M
MF
MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NYC
one grant, 2017 · $1.8M · revenue -86%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

New York City Energy Efficiency

Delivering financing solutions and advancing markets for energy efficiency and clean energy.

Environment

The Bronx Parent Housing Network Inc

Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and…

Human Services

Nyc School Support Services Inc

Provide staffing of custodial helpers for the city of new york department of education.

Education

Physician Affiliate Group of New York Pc

To offer responsive and quality healthcare to the new york community while fulfilling the educational and entrepreneurial needs of our members.

Health

New York Ehealth Collaborative Inc

To improve healthcare for all new yorkers through health information technology ("health it"). nyec's mission is to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, & integrating health information exchange across the state.

Health

Legal Services of Central New York Inc

Legal services of central new york (lscny)is a 501c3 non-profit law firm that helps people and communities in central new york change law, policy, and systems to promote equity and create pathways out of poverty for low-income families and…

Crime & Legal

Network of Jewish Human Service

Advances efforts in best practices, innovation, research and partnerships to strengthen non-profit jewish human service agencies so they can better serve their communities.

Human Services

Job Path Inc

Job path supports people with autism and other developmental disabilities as they make choices about their lives and play valued roles in their communities.

Employment

Federal Defenders of New York Inc

The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.

Crime & Legal

Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy

The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.

Human Services

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

To support the delivery of health care services to patients in the new york metropolitan area.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Touro University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%13/945

the rest of the field

10%

4,813/47,749

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

860 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

274

Early backer (in before they grew)

833/860

Grantees still filing

689/860

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$329,558,878Human Services$198,491,123Other$354,781,186Health$70,494,702Crime & Legal$61,584,853Community Improvement$52,928,835Employment$45,090,798

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Brooklyn Community FoundationNY140.7× affinity129 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brooklyn Community Foundation · United Way of New York City · Pinkerton Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Food Bank for New York City · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Van Ameringen Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · New York State Health Fdn

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UKA Facilities Foundation Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 263952842 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UKA Facilities Foundation Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Robin Hood Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robin Hood Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines