Skip to content

Florida · Private foundation

Robin Smith Charitable Trust

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.

$450k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2025
33
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$250
Largest grant, FY2025
$244,991
Organizations funded a year
33 to 54
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Robin Smith Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving32$450k0%
FY202433$311k3%
FY202337$114k16%
FY202236$185k11%
FY202137$92k27%
FY202054$88kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$676kEducation$471kCommunity Improvement$43kEmployment$15kHealth$13kHuman Services$9kInternational$4kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
NM
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc$278,50060%
The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc$110,00061%
The Baldwin School$100,00030%
Wellesley College$33,10060%
Poets and Writers Inc$13,00030%
El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc$4,00050%
House of the Good Shepherd$3,00060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$2,20060%
Funsepa US$2,18222%
Big Moose Community Chapel$1,9251n/a
Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($682k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robin Smith Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlorida Atlantic University Foundation Inc: $278,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetThe Baldwin School: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWellesley College: $33,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPoets and Writers Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEl Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHouse of the Good Shepherd: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFunsepa US: $2,182 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $717 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetReading Is Fundamental Inc: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chapin School Ltd: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAll Stars Project Inc: $450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFund for Park Avenue New York Inc: $400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Inc: $150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Webb Historical Association: $150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLoxahatchee Guild Inc: $100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Service Society of New York: $100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Appalachian Project Inc: $100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $50 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $50 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $50 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFountain House Inc: $50 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $50 over 5y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

Compare Robin Smith Charitable Trust with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Robin Smith Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Robin Smith Charitable Trust 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.

About Robin Smith Charitable Trust

How much does Robin Smith Charitable Trust give?
Robin Smith Charitable Trust reported 33 grants totaling $449,730 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Robin Smith Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), Education (38%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are Robin Smith Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc ($279k), The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc ($110k), The Baldwin School ($100k).
Does Robin Smith Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robin Smith Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robin Smith Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Robin Smith Charitable Trust based?
Robin Smith Charitable Trust is based in FL.

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 76 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Robin Smith’s filings →

More from the funding graph