Texas · Private foundation
Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $794k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $50k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $50k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $48k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $61k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $42k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paws Chicago | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $17,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Noahs Ark Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $12,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| VEAP Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| First Love International Ministries | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paws Chicago | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $17,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Noahs Ark Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $12,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| VEAP Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| First Love International Ministries | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Loving Indeed Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Thurston County Food Bank | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Lords Cupboard Inc | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Heavenly Pet Sanctuary | $500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation
- How much does Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation give?
- Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $49,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (62%), Environment (7%), Education (6%).
- Who are Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Paws Chicago ($175k), Chicago Horticultural Society ($17k), Illinois Wesleyan University ($16k).
- Does Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation based?
- Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation is based in TX.
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