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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.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$193kEducation$183kHealth$122kHuman Services$98kReligion$80kInternational$68kPhilanthropy$48kFood & Nutrition$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITE WATER VALLEY RAILROAD$17,000
MARIAN UNIVERSITY$17,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$12,500
KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FOUNDATION$12,500
IVY TECH FOUNDATION$5,000
HVAF OF INDIANA$5,000
ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF$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
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PRE$2,500
ASCENT 121$2,500
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%ASCENT 121: $3k → 12%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%ASCENT 121: $3k → 12%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%ASCENT 121: $3k → 12%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%ASCENT 121: $3k → 12%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%ASCENT 121: $3k → 12%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $5k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $4k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $2k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $2k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $2k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $2k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $2k → 16%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $3k → 16%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
CA
MO
KY
NC
HI
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$816k · 39 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
13

Total granted

$816k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-10%

Still filing today

62%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MU
    Marian University
    8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +51%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +28%
  • IT
    IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +208%

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEARTS SCHOOL & EARLY LEARNI
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • PA
    PRESENTATION ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +90%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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3
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health
5
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

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…

Health
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
10
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
11
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana Organ Procurement Organization Inc

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascent 121 Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 54 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITE WATER VALLEY RAILROAD: $106,000 · OtherWHITE WATER VALLEY RAILROADSAINT LUKE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherSAINT LUKE CATHOLIC CHURCHINDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $44,500 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCHOOSIER VETERANS ASSISTANCE FUND: $25,000 · OtherSACRED HEARTS SCHOOL & EARLY LEARNI: $25,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $21,500 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $20,000 · OtherMiracle Place Inc: $21,000 · OtherHVAF OF INDIANA INC: $20,000 · Other+23 more: $151,250 · Other+23 moreMarian University: $110,000 · EducationMarian UniversityIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION I…BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $15,000 · EducationBRIGHTLANE LEARNING C…+3 more: $12,000 · Education+3 moreST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $45,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH I…COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesCOBURN PLAC…ASCENT 121 INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesASCENT 121 …WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WAR…MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $5,000 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOO…FAIRBANKS HOSPITAL INC: $29,000 · HealthAllies of Indiana: $7,500 · HealthLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC: $5,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $42,500 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $37,500 · ReligionINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHEARTLAND FILM INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$484,250Education$167,000Human Services$89,500Health$48,000Philanthropy$47,500Religion$37,500Arts & Culture$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarian University: $110,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRBANKS HOSPITAL INC: $29,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $22,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMiracle Place Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHVAF OF INDIANA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $15,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetASCENT 121 INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALLIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAllies of Indiana: $7,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetTHE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Cajun Navy: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND FILM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget500 Festival Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LET IT BE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 Allies of Indiana ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds United Cajun Navy ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Lilly Endowment IncThe Indianapolis Foun…United Way of Central…Lumina Foundation for…Central Indiana Commu…Hamilton County Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Hoover Family Foundat…Samerian Foundation I…The Brave Heart Found…St Vincent Hospital a…Pacers Foundation Inc
Lilly Endowment IncIN35× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rock Island Refining Foundation Holly Robinson Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rock Island Refining Foundation Holly Robinson Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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