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Robins Nest 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.

$299k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$433kEducation$241kHousing & Shelter$214kHealth$158kArts & Culture$156kReligion$118kYouth Development$58kPhilanthropy$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVERSTRONG$59,000
TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI$30,000
YOUTHCARE$20,000
MULTICARE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$17,000
COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION$15,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$10,000
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL$10,000
SAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM$10,000
LIFEWIRE$10,000
THE SOPHIA WAY$10,000
SAFE CROSSING FOUNDATION$10,000
AMARA$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$10,000
YELLOWSTONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES$7,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $478k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $17k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $20k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $8k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $15k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 9%SAFE CROSSING FOUNDATION: $17k → 9%SAFE CROSSING FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%STOLENYOUTH: $33k → 9%SAFE CROSSING FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%STOLENYOUTH: $30k → 9%SAFE CROSSING FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%SAFE CROSSING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $30k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $25k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $20k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $20k → 9%AMARA: $20k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $15k → 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%AMARA: $5k → 9%AMARA: $5k → 9%AMARA: $2k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDRENS FUND: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 42 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
34

Total granted

$1.3M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+1%

Still filing today

79%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • CS
    College Success Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +70%
  • SC
    SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $66k · revenue +37%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • MP
    MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +18%
  • B
    BAM
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • RN
    ROBINS NEST EMPOWERMENT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $15k

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.

1
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
2
Life Science Washington

Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…

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3
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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4
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
5
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
6
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
7
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
8
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
11
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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12
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multicare Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Seattle 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersYouth Development ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Addiction Recovery ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence Services
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%41%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr15%16%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/67
the rest of the field
12%
4,743/38,901

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.

04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/65
Grantees still filing
39/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Everstrong Prevention — $145,633 · Human ServicesEverstrong PreventionYOUTHCARE — $110,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARESAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION — $65,500 · Human ServicesSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATIONJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $60,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESLifeWire — $52,500 · Human ServicesLifeWireTHE SOPHIA WAY — $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAYAMARA — $42,000 · Human ServicesAMARAJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $27,300 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $17,000 · Human ServicesTEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI — $68,800 · OtherTEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAIEVERSTRONG — $59,000 · OtherEVERSTRONGWashington Women in Need — $40,000 · OtherWashington Women in NeedSAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM — $27,000 · OtherLAMBERT HOUSE — $22,100 · OtherBAM — $20,000 · OtherYELLOWSTONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $25,500 · OtherNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL — $26,533 · OtherYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Other+42 more — $177,687 · Other+42 moreCollege Success Foundation — $90,000 · EducationCollege Succ…CODEORG — $45,000 · EducationCODEORGUNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL — $25,340 · EducationUNIVERSITY C…RAINIER SCHOLARS — $7,000 · EducationMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $32,000 · HealthNAVOS — $20,000 · HealthFriends of Cancer Research — $15,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $15,000 · HealthLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $13,000 · HealthRIVKIN CENTER FOR OVARIAN CANCER — $10,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 · HealthLIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL — $5,000 · Health+4 more — $8,185 · HealthMaris Place — $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE — $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentYou Grow Girl — $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentBrothers for Life — $32,500 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP — $16,840 · Arts & CultureGAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT — $10,000 · Arts & CultureJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$584,933Other$526,620Education$167,340Health$123,185Youth Development$70,000Arts & Culture$59,340Housing & Shelter$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEverstrong Prevention — $145,633 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION — $65,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLifeWire — $52,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY — $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCODEORG — $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMARA — $42,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWashington Women in Need — $40,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBrothers for Life — $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place — $32,500 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $27,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL — $26,533 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL — $25,340 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAMBERT HOUSE — $22,100 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE — $20,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVOS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP — $16,840 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYou Grow Girl — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY OF CANCER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVKIN CENTER FOR OVARIAN CANCER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFARESTART — $7,623 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Women International — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $4,167 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Parkinsons Foundation — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $3,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $3,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…United Way of King Co…Moccasin Lake Foundat…McKinstry Charitable …The Norcliffe Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Medina FoundationLott FoundationSatya and Rao Remala …Casey Family ProgramsMightycause Charitabl…
Seattle FoundationWA43× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Medina Foundation · Lott Foundation · Satya and Rao Remala Foundation · Casey Family Programs · Mightycause Charitable 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 Nest 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
23report 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

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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How do I get to Robins Nest Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robins Nest Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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