· Private foundation
Ross C Robbins Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Opportunity International | $5,000 |
| Dartmouth College Fund | $2,500 |
| Forbeck Foundation | $2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Friends of Lane | $1,555 |
| Illinois Holocaust Museum | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Saint Clement Parish | $1,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $1,000 |
| St Judes | $350 |
| Cru | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Chicago Guild History Museum | $250 |
| Alzheimers Association | $250 |
| Mercy Home | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF LINCOLN PARK HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +4%
- TLTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO6× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +34%
- GWGandhi Worldwide Education Institute3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- DHDELAVAN-DARIEN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $3k
- DCDARTMOUTH COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- AHANNE HOFFMANN FUND GERMANYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Founded in 1884, the grolier club is america's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts. named for jean grolier (1489 or 90-1565), the renaissance collector renowned for sharing his library with…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lane ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LINCOLN PARK HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Oscar Mayer School ↗
- Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Boca Grande Woman's Club Inc · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Sweet Peas Foundation · Sackett Family Foundation · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Shore Lane Family Foundation Inc · Hugh Gregg Foundation · Carbonari Family Foundation · Tua the Anne Potter Wilson Fdn
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ross C Robbins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross C Robbins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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