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Robins Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MS HARRIET RICKENBACKSHIH TZU RESCUE INC | $95,000 |
| DR ENA MACRICROMWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| CROSSRIDGE WELNESS CO ST BERNARDS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS | $20,000 |
| DUP 15 Q ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $12,000 |
| PACER CENTER | $12,000 |
| MANES & MOTIONS UNRESTRICTED CARE | $10,000 |
| OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO | $10,000 |
| MISSION SANTA MARIA | $10,000 |
| H O R S E OF CT | $10,000 |
| IN THE COMPANY OF FERRETS | $10,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CLINTON FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EHEND HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $92k · revenue +48%
- D1DUP 15Q ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $82k · revenue +90%
- BHBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MEMR ERIC RICKENBACKSHIH TZU RESCUE INCone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TWTHE WYNNE YELLOW JACKET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- FCFISHER CENTER ALZHEIMERS RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Engaging the community to end hunger
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Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mwendo Congo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds END HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds DUP 15Q ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION SANTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM TORT LAW INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ACCORD ↗
- Who funds MWENDO CONGO ↗
- Who funds Higher Purpose Hub ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization Robins Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
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 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.
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