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Rock Island Refining Foundation Holly Robinson Trustee
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of ROCK ISLAND REFINING FOUNDATION HOLLY ROBINSON TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY | $17,000 |
| WHITE WATER VALLEY RAILROAD | $17,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $12,500 |
| KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $5,000 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HVAF OF INDIANA | $5,000 |
| COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN | $3,500 |
| INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC | $2,500 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| ASCENT 121 | $2,500 |
| BRIGHTLANE LEARNING | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PRE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- MUMarian University8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +51%
- SJST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +28%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEARTS SCHOOL & EARLY LEARNIone grant, 2023 · $25k
- PAPRESENTATION ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $6k
- ILINDIANA LIONS FOR LEADER DOG INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
In 2024, indiana organ procurement organization d.b.a indiana network facilitated 1388 organ transplants from 509 organ donors leading to 1,216 lives saved. additionally, 1,669 tissue and cornea donors gave the gift of healing and sight,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascent 121 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 54 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 Marian University ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Miracle Place Inc ↗
- Who funds HVAF OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASCENT 121 INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Allies of Indiana ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FILM INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation · Samerian Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Inc · Pacers Foundation Inc
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 Rock Island Refining Foundation Holly Robinson Trustee 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.