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The Christopher W Robinson Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$219k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$481kHuman Services$165kCrime & Legal$125kPhilanthropy$119kInternational$99kHousing & Shelter$65kEducation$41kCivil Rights$39kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$9,600
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rockpointe Church$56,000
Human Coalition$35,000
CPCH$18,000
ACLJ$14,400
Childrens Advocacy Center$14,400
Christian Community Action$12,000
Samaritans Purse$12,000
Destiny Worship Center$9,600
Judicial Watch$9,600
Billy Graham Evangelical Organizati$7,200
Blue Haven Ranch$7,200
Tunnel to Towers$7,200
American Family Association$4,800
Operation Kindness$4,800
Air 1$4,800
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Human Coalition: $35k → 11%Human Coalition: $30k → 11%Human Coalition: $21k → 11%Human Coalition: $12k → 11%Human Coalition: $12k → 11%Human Coalition: $12k → 11%Human Coalition: $7k → 11%Human Coalition: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
CO
NE
NC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of The Christopher W Robinson Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 100% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Christopher W Robinson Family Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 24 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
3

Total granted

$1.2M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+19%

Still filing today

38%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • HC
    HUMAN COALITION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +164%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +134%
  • CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +225%

Funded once

  • BG
    BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
4
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
5
Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health
6
Faith Aid

The organization cares for the sick and suffering in Jesus name by partnering with Christian mission hospitals, helping patients unable to afford treatment, and supporting Mustard Seed House ministry locations in Kenya.

International
7
Servant Foundation

The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…

Religion
8
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
9
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
10
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
11
Challenge Ministries Us

The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.

International
12
Christian Leadership Alliance

Christian leadership alliance exists to equip and unite leaders called to transform the world for christ.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Action and 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.

05the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROCKPOINTE CHURCH — $146,500 · OtherROCKPOINTE CHURCHCPCH — $110,000 · OtherCPCHTHE VILLAGE CHURCH — $100,800 · OtherTHE VILLAGE CHURCHChildren's Advocacy Center — $74,500 · OtherChildren's Advocacy CenterACLJ — $67,600 · OtherACLJJudicial Watch — $50,100 · OtherJudicial WatchBilly Graham Evangelistic Association — $42,000 · OtherBilly Graham Evangelistic AssociationCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc — $37,200 · OtherThe Salvation Army — $30,000 · OtherFAI — $29,700 · Other+8 more — $88,400 · Other+8 moreHUMAN COALITION — $135,400 · Human ServicesHUMAN COALITI…SAMARITAN'S PURSE — $82,200 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S …AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC — $29,600 · ReligionAMERICAN FAM…Liberty Educational Ministries Inc — $19,000 · ReligionLiberty Educ…CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $65,400 · Housing & ShelterBLUE HAVEN RANCH — $22,800 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $21,600 · EducationMILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC — $11,800 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated — $4,800 · InternationalOPERATION KINDNESS — $9,600 · Animals
Other$776,800Human Services$135,400Religion$130,800Housing & Shelter$65,400Health$22,800Education$21,600International$16,600Animals$9,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHUMAN COALITION — $135,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $82,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $65,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc — $37,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC — $29,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE HAVEN RANCH — $22,800 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $21,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty Educational Ministries Inc — $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $9,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated — $4,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HUMAN COALITION
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION
  • Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds BLUE HAVEN RANCH
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Liberty Educational Ministries Inc
  • Who funds MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC
  • Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC

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.

The Signatry Charitable TrustSD17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Servant Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Christopher W Robinson Family Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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