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Robins Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
110
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$378k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$14MHuman Services$9.0MYouth Development$5.0MArts & Culture$3.3MPhilanthropy$3.2MHealth$2.7MEnvironment$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k45 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $675k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$172M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDSAVERS$378,175
HENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$297,250
VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION$216,959
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND$180,000
MAYMONT FOUNDATION$160,000
LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC$160,000
STORYCORPS INC$150,000
METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS INC$150,000
SACRED HEART CENTER$140,000
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $756k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $135k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $130k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $100k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $70k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $70k → 9%HELP ME HELP YOU FOUNDATION: $158k → 7%HELP ME HELP YOU FOUNDATION: $46k → 7%HELP ME HELP YOU FOUNDATION: $46k → 7%REESTABLISH RICHMOND INC: $43k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $40k → 9%REESTABLISH RICHMOND INC: $37k → 9%YWCA RICHMOND: $125k → 7%YWCA RICHMOND: $100k → 7%SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $100k → 7%CHILDREN'S ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICE: $40k → 7%MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC: $40k → 7%MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC: $35k → 7%MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC: $35k → 7%SHALOM FARMS: $100k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $252k → 22%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $248k → 22%SHALOM FARMS: $60k → 9%CAPITAL CENTERS OF VIRGINIA: $170k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $125k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $140k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $110k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $105k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $95k → 22%CAPITAL CENTERS OF VIRGINIA: $95k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $95k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $75k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $75k → 22%CAPITAL CENTERS OF VIRGINIA: $75k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $75k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $75k → 22%CAPITAL CENTERS OF VIRGINIA: $50k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $50k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $187k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $175k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $107k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $95k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $45k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Robins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Robins Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44M · 178 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

178
90

Total granted

$44M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+4%

Still filing today

78%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CM
    CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +100%
  • HE
    HENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue ×12
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND
    5× · 2018–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $756k · revenue -92%
  • PO
    PARTNERSHIPS OF FAMILY NORTHSIDE
    one grant, 2018 · $613k
  • TF
    TRINITY FAMILY LIFE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New Schools for Virginia

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.

Education
2
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
3
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
4
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
5
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Richmond County Partnership for Children Inc

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…

Education
7
Virginia Learns

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.

Civil Rights
8
The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

—
9
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

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.

—
10
Greater Richmond Partnership Inc

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.

Public Benefit
11
Good Shepherd Episcopal School

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…

Education
12
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg; 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.
05the grantee network

220 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
79
Early backer (in before they grew)
214/220
Grantees still filing
155/220
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $2,163,675 · OtherCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINICPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES NORTHSIDE INC: $1,360,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES NORTHSIDE INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG: $1,262,500 · OtherSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $970,000 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND: $859,866 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $1,325,333 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND+105 more: $15,878,289 · Other+105 moreHENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,549,750 · EducationHENRICO EDUCATION F…VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: $1,201,959 · EducationVIRGINIA EARLY CHIL…RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $837,500 · EducationRICHMOND PUBLIC SCH…UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $555,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHM…CODEVA INC: $460,100 · EducationCODEVA INCTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $454,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE SCHO…VIRGINIA LITERACY FOUNDATION: $440,000 · EducationVIRGINIA LITERACY F…VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT: $353,000 · EducationST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $346,275 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $294,000 · Education+20 more: $1,632,750 · Education+20 moreFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $793,600 · Human ServicesFRIENDS ASSOC…FII - NATIONAL: $756,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONA…PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $655,000 · Human ServicesPETER PAUL DE…Children's Home Society of Virginia: $545,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Ho…FAMILY LIFELINE: $540,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LIFELI…Commonwealth Catholic Charities: $500,000 · Human ServicesCommonwealth …CAPITAL CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $396,500 · Human ServicesCAPITAL CENTE…YWCA RICHMOND: $350,000 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHMONDHELP ME HELP YOU FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Human Services+11 more: $837,650 · Human Services+11 moreCHESTERFIELD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,103,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $720,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PETERSBURG INC: $318,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE: $288,400 · PhilanthropyGREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC: $264,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $146,100 · PhilanthropyMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $417,500 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museum of Richmond: $350,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 Inc: $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ASPEN: $215,000 · Arts & CultureVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $208,500 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $150,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK HISTORY MUSEUM & CLT CTR: $130,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureRICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE: $97,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $95,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $190,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $770,000 · Crime & LegalGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $544,150 · Crime & LegalRISE RICHMOND INC: $410,000 · Crime & LegalVIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP: $294,750 · Crime & LegalLATINOS IN VIRGINIA EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $237,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER: $220,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $45,000 · Crime & LegalVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC: $739,000 · EnvironmentJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $574,000 · EnvironmentLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $427,500 · EnvironmentCAPITAL TREES: $220,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE JAMES RIVER PARK: $100,000 · EnvironmentCAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $100,000 · Environment+3 more: $130,000 · Environment
Other$23,819,663Education$8,124,334Human Services$5,623,750Philanthropy$2,840,000Arts & Culture$2,553,500Crime & Legal$2,521,400Environment$2,290,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $2,163,675 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetHENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,549,750 over 8y, 18% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $1,325,333 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG: $1,262,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetVIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: $1,201,959 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCHESTERFIELD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,103,500 over 8y, 63% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $970,000 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetRICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $837,500 over 4y, 27% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $793,600 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $770,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $756,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC: $739,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $720,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $655,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $574,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $555,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Home Society of Virginia: $545,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $544,150 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE: $540,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetFORE CHILDREN INC: $512,500 over 7y, 58% of budgetCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $500,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST: $500,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE GREATER RICHMOND CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $495,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetCODEVA INC: $460,100 over 6y, 18% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $454,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA LITERACY FOUNDATION: $440,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $427,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities: $422,150 over 6y, 11% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $417,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetRISE RICHMOND INC: $410,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCAPITAL CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $396,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $360,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $355,150 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT: $353,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond: $350,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $350,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $346,275 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS: $325,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PETERSBURG INC: $318,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $317,150 over 6y, 11% of budgetBLUE SKY FUND: $305,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetVIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP: $294,750 over 5y, 23% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $294,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE: $288,400 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $280,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetART 180 Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $273,333 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCARITAS: $265,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budget
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 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 Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
  • 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 Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
  • Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Richmond Memorial Hea…The Mary Morton Parso…Herndon FoundationThe Pauley Family Fou…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Dominion Energy Chari…Tesco FoundationShelton H Short Jr Tr…Robert G Cabell III a…Townebank FoundationRichard S Reynolds Fo…
The Community Foundation IncVA170.6× affinity122 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
65report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Robins Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robins Foundation 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.

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 298 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home