Delaware · Private foundation
Robinson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $49M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Robinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $2.8M | 69% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $3.1M | 64% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $2.6M | 79% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $3.3M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $2.9M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $2.4M | 65% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $2.1M | 63% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $8,000,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Tennessee Baptist Mission Board | $1,650,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Mercy Chefs Inc | $1,600,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation | $1,250,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $1,025,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Tipton-Rosemark Academy Inc | $635,300 | 5 | 4% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Hatchie River | $572,500 | 6 | 13% |
| Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc | $517,500 | 5 | 3% |
| One Family Memphis | $440,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Confidential Care Mobile Ministry | $260,000 | 2 | 52% |
Show all 149 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robinson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 124 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 of Greater Memphis Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · Southwest Members Care Incorporated · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · American Gift Fund · Arizona Community Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · American Express Foundation
How this is measured
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About Robinson Foundation
- How much does Robinson Foundation give?
- Robinson Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $2,839,905 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robinson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Human Services (19%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Robinson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($8.0M), Tennessee Baptist Mission Board ($1.6M), Mercy Chefs Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Robinson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robinson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Publix Super Markets Charities Inc, McKesson Foundation Inc.
- Where is Robinson Foundation based?
- Robinson Foundation is based in DE.
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