· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| SHENANDOA VALLEY BATTLEFIELD FDN | $100 |
| 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $100 |
| SEEING HAND ASSN | $100 |
| WREATH ACROSS AMERICA | $50 |
| OHIO COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50 |
| WHEELING GENEALOG SOCIETY | $10 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robinson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robinson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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