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Robins Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k45 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $675k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDSAVERS | $378,175 |
| HENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $297,250 |
| VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION | $216,959 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND | $180,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC | $160,000 |
| MAYMONT FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| STORYCORPS INC | $150,000 |
| METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS INC | $150,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $140,000 |
| SACRED HEART CENTER | $140,000 |
| CHESTERFIELD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $126,000 |
| BLUE SKY FUND | $125,000 |
| CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION | $114,900 |
| SOAR365 | $112,500 |
| FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN | $106,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Robins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
178 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 97 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- CMCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +100%
- HEHENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue ×12
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND5× · 2018–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +3%
Funded once
FII - NATIONALone grant, 2020 · $756k · revenue -89%- POPARTNERSHIPS OF FAMILY NORTHSIDEone grant, 2018 · $613k
- TFTRINITY FAMILY LIFE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $150k
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.
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…
Virginia learns brings together business and education leaders with the shared goal of creating a more innovative, relevant and equitable public education system in virginia.
To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
GRP's mission is to aggressively generate economic opportunities that create quality jobs for residents in the region and increase the tax base for needed community services.
The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is Renew Richmond. 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.
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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
220 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. 220 of the 298 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES NORTHSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTERFIELD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of Virginia ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds FORE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER RICHMOND CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CODEVA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RISE RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
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 Community Foundation Inc · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Richard S Reynolds 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 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Associated Baptist Press Inc Attn Lindsay Bergstrom — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% 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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