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Robinson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $586k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $503k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $1,000,000 |
| LE BONHEUR CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS INC | $250,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS INC | $250,000 |
| CHILDHELP INC | $125,000 |
| CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC | $67,500 |
| MERCY CHEFS INC | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE HATCHIE RIVER REGION | $50,000 |
| ARIZONA CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| PEACEFUL PASTURES DONKEY RESCUE | $27,000 |
| BEHEARD | $25,000 |
| REBUILDING HOPE INC | $25,000 |
| CHURCH UNDER A TREE OF LOUISIANA | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Robinson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +125%- MCMERCY CHEFS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +147%
- LBLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +72%
Funded once
- MRMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -20%
- OSOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +213%
- TBTHURMAN BRISBEN HOMELESS SHELTER INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -14%
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.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
Our mission is to help families be families by creating custom home modifications for children with special healthcare needs. from sensory and therapy rooms to fully wheelchair-accessible spaces, our home transformations provide safer…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
Freedom ride rescue is committed to saving dogs from overcrowded shelters and placing them in loving foster homes until they find their forever families. our mission is to create a no-kill state by rehabilitating and rehoming dogs while…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…
Foster Kinship supports all kinship families throughout Nevada. We assist grandparents, relatives, and fictive kin who are raising children through five core programs: 1- Enhanced Kinship Navigator Program - Provides intensive support to…
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans
Pet peace of mind provides hospices,home health agencies, and hospitals with a turnkey solution to help them establish a program to recruit and train their volunteers to help patients with pet care needs.
To care for individuals and families with compassion, support, and expertise as they navigate the end of life or life-changing illness.
Neads' service dogs provide life-changing independence, companionship, and connection to people with a disability. with a dedicated staff and enthusiastic volunteers, neads carefully matches clients with the right dog and provides ongoing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is One Family Memphis. 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.
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 21 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
112 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. 112 of the 132 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Tipton-Rosemark Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENTIAL CARE MOBILE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GO LUCY GO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE HATCHIE RIVER ↗
- Who funds BOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT EAST ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THURMAN BRISBEN HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Animal Care Coalition PACC911 ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Medication Management ↗
- Who funds Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MACON MEDICATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL PASTURES DONKEY RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DDC CLINIC FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More ↗
- Who funds Faith N Friends ↗
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 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
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 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.
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Christian Sharing Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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