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Robson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS | $20,000 |
| BOK TOWER GARDENS INC | $10,000 |
| STARTING RIGHT NOW | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $10,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY STEPPING STONES | $5,000 |
| HEART OF ADOPTIONS ALLIANCE INC | $5,000 |
| KATIE GOLDEN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC | $100 |
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 (FY23–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- FMFLORIDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +4%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS2× · 2023–2024 · $25k
- KGKATIE GOLDEN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INCone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +24%
- IWINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -12%
- SGSUNKEN GARDENS FOREVER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -9%
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 depict and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of south florida and the everglades in or botanical gardens and wildlife sanctuaries.
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.
The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To provide leadership and financial support for the florida botanical gardens.
To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.
Through photographic exhibits, the Heart Gallery of Tampa introduces our community to foster children awaiting adoptive families. We provide a platform to inspire our community to improve their quality of life and connect them with Forever…
The museum of art is an educational and cultural facility which was established to promote and encourage the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of fine and visual arts through permanent and rotating exhibits and special events.…
Our mission is to engage, educate and excite the community by collecting, exhibiting, and preserving works of art for the enjoyment of all. the museum of fine arts, st. petersburg, florida (mfa) is the cultural leader of our community. our…
To provide bayfront sanctuaries connecting people with air plants of the world, native nature, and our regional history.
Exhibits to educate the public on glass art
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Sheriffs Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart of Adoptions Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOK TOWER GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ADOPTIONS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNKEN GARDENS FOREVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Henry B Plant Museum Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Special Operations Fund ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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 Tampa Bay Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Robson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bok Tower Gardens Inc — 1% 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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