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The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr Foundation at a glance

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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.

$755k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$655kHealth$638kEducation$622kEnvironment$198kHousing & Shelter$85kInternational$75kAnimals$73kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $590k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts$50,000
Virginia Museum of History & Culture (formerly Virginia Historical Society)$50,000
Kassunga Mission Initiative$50,000
Southwest Virginia Public Education Foundation Inc$40,000
Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation (WWPL)$40,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Richmond$25,000
Sheltering Arms Foundation$25,000
Crossover Healthcare Ministry$25,000
Maymont Foundation$20,000
George C Marshall Foundation$20,000
World Pediatric Project$20,000
Richmond Animal League$15,000
The Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges$15,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Operation Healing Forces: $8k → 12%Commonwealth Catholic Charities: $100k → 9%Operation Healing Forces: $8k → 12%Commonwealth Catholic Charities: $100k → 9%Operation Healing Forces: $8k → 12%Commonwealth Catholic Charities: $100k → 9%Commonwealth Catholic Charities: $100k → 9%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $10k → 22%Commonwealth Catholic Charities: $10k → 9%Kassunga Mission Initiative: $50k → 7%Kassunga Mission Initiative: $25k → 7%NextUp RVA: $5k → 9%Richmond Friends of the Homeless: $10k → 7%St Joseph's Villa: $15k → 9%Richmond Friends of the Homeless: $10k → 7%St Joseph's Villa: $15k → 9%Richmond Friends of the Homeless: $10k → 7%Richmond Friends of the Homeless: $10k → 7%Richmond Friends of the Homeless: $10k → 7%Richmond Friends of the Homeless: $5k → 7%Commonwealth Catholic Charities: $10k → 9%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $15k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $8k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $6k → 22%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 46 repeat orgs$422k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
26

Total granted

$3.4M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-1%

Still filing today

76%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • CC
    Commonwealth Catholic Charities
    6× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +49%
  • SV
    SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +40% · 32% of their budget
  • WW
    WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • TN
    The National D-Day Memorial
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • MF
    Medicines for All Institute VCU College of Engineering
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • MC
    Medical College of Virginia Foundation - Brain Health Initiative
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
2
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
3
Virginia Association of Museums

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".

Arts & Culture
4
Vpm Media Corporation

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Richmond Symphony

The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.

Arts & Culture
6
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
7
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

—
8
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
10
William & Mary Foundation

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…

Education
11
Washington Heritage Museums

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…

Arts & Culture
12
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities; 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.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
30/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $285,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSIndividual grant recipient: $270,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC: $185,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA PUBLICVirginia Museum of History & Culture (formerly Virginia Historical Society): $135,000 · OtherVirginia Museum of History & Culture (formerly Virgini…Bon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundation: $110,000 · OtherBon Secours Richmond Healthcare FoundationELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $66,500 · OtherRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $72,500 · Other+33 more: $724,500 · Other+33 moreCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $420,000 · Human ServicesCommonwealth Catho…KASSUNGA MISSION INITIATIVE: $75,000 · Human ServicesKASSUNGA MISSION I…RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD: $55,000 · Human ServicesRICHMOND FRIENDS O…Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $38,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christ…ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $30,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $22,500 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $170,000 · Arts & CultureWOODROW WILSON PR…MAYMONT FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Arts & CultureMAYMONT FOUNDATIO…VIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA WAR MEMO…The Virginia Holocaust Museum: $90,000 · Arts & CultureThe Virginia Holo…ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $50,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION FOR T…Children's Museum of Richmond: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $68,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $60,000 · EducationLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 · EducationNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND: $95,000 · HealthSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER: $25,000 · HealthTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $25,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $20,000 · HealthFREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC: $17,500 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY: $92,500 · EnvironmentLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $90,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentROSE GROUP FOR CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTAND: $70,000 · InternationalWORLD PEDIATRICS: $67,500 · International
Other$1,848,500Human Services$646,000Arts & Culture$598,500Education$240,000Health$212,500Environment$187,500International$137,500

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 budgetCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $420,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC: $185,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetWOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND: $95,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY: $92,500 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetThe Virginia Holocaust Museum: $90,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $72,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetROSE GROUP FOR CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTAND: $70,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $67,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $66,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $60,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD: $55,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $52,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $38,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCARITAS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER: $25,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RICHMOND KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetRICHMOND EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 35% of budgetEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MENOKIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $6,000 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 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Peachtree House Found…The Mary Morton Parso…Dominion Energy Chari…The Rock FoundationRichard S Reynolds Fo…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Robert G Cabell III a…Herndon FoundationWindsor Fdn Trust Uw …The William H - John …The Pauley Family Fou…
The Community Foundation IncVA74.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 81 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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