· Private foundation
Robinson Family Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF WHEELING | $837 |
| Individual grant recipient | $330 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $250 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $200 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM | $200 |
| APPALACHIAN OUTREACH | $150 |
| SOUP KITCHEN | $150 |
| 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $100 |
| SEEING HAND ASSN | $100 |
| SHENANDOA VALLEY BATTLEFIELD FDN | $100 |
| OHIO COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50 |
| WREATH ACROSS AMERICA | $50 |
| WHEELING GENEALOG SOCIETY | $10 |
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 (FY17–22, $450) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- 1P1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH5× · 2017–2022 · $2k
- FOFRIENDS OF WHEELING INC4× · 2018–2022 · $2k · revenue +44%
- SKSOUP KITCHEN5× · 2017–2022 · $550
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $362
- SSOLTANAone grant, 2020 · $200
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100
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.
To enable people who are blind or visually impaired to function independently, live full, productive lives with dignity and self-respect, and promote positive public awareness of blindness by providing individualized independent living or…
To create and grow employment opportunities for people who are blind or visually impaired.
The exempt purpose is to support the quality of life and activity in the wheeling national heritage area through beautification projects as well as by acquiring and preserving historically significant structures.
Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams
To provide the transforming gift of mobility to people with disabilities living in developing nations as motivated by jesus christ.
The mission of the society is to promote an interst in the broad spectrum of history with emphasis on that of western virginia; to collect, preserve, interpret and make available materials relating to that history; to sponsor research and…
To preserve, collect and exhibit artifacts, and other artifacts pertaining to over the road transportation.
To preserve and promote the history of the ironworks industry in alabama and to operate two parks, which includes a historical museum.
Empowering individuals with vision loss to attain independence.
To create opportunities for success and independence with people who are blind or visually impaired through vision rehabilitation services and employment.
To preserve railroad history.
Through generous donations, we strengthen communities, eliminate barriers to opportunity, and help people reach their full potential through learning and the power of work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn and the most unlike its peers is Seeing Hand Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 36 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 FRIENDS OF WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
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: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · The Banford & Terri Exley Family Foundation Inc · Hess Family Foundation · 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 Robinson 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.
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.