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The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr Foundation’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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $590k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $50,000 |
| Virginia Museum of History & Culture (formerly Virginia Historical Society) | $50,000 |
| Kassunga Mission Initiative | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Southwest Virginia Public Education Foundation Inc | $40,000 |
| Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation (WWPL) | $40,000 |
| Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation | $40,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Richmond | $25,000 |
| Crossover Healthcare Ministry | $25,000 |
| Sheltering Arms Foundation | $25,000 |
| Maymont Foundation | $20,000 |
| World Pediatric Project | $20,000 |
| George C Marshall Foundation | $20,000 |
| Chesterfield Henrico CASA Inc | $15,000 |
| St Joseph's Villa | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $646k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +28% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- CCCommonwealth Catholic Charities6× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +49%
- SVSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +40% · 32% of their budget
- WWWOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +198%
Funded once
- TNThe National D-Day Memorialone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MFMedicines for All Institute VCU College of Engineeringone grant, 2022 · $20k
- MCMedical College of Virginia Foundation - Brain Health Initiativeone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Virginia Public. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 81 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 Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds KASSUNGA MISSION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE GROUP FOR CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTAND ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds GEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · Peachtree House Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Rock Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · The Pauley Family 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 The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation 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.
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