· Private foundation
The David W and Susan G Robinson 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: 50% of THE DAVID W AND SUSAN G ROBINSON 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 $10k13 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $14,960 |
| OLIVER GOSPEL MISSION | $10,000 |
| SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA | $10,000 |
| USC SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $5,000 |
| AMANI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MUSC FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CAMP COLE | $3,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH HOSPICE OF COLUMBIA | $2,500 |
| CANCER COMMONS | $2,000 |
| HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| BROOKGREEN GARDENS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HANDSHAKE COLUMBUS INC | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- OGOliver Gospel Mission9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +47%
- SFSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +36%
- HFHopeWay Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- HHHeathwood Hall Episcopal Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +95%
- SHSTILL HOPES EPISCOPAL RETIREMENTone grant, 2022 · $5k
- MPMENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +24%
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.
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
(See Schedule O)
Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families
Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…
The Carolina Ocean Alliance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that advances community-driven solutions through strategic coalitions of our partners, develops the next generation of leaders, and fosters a culture of environmental stewardship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Charleston Parks Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Oliver Gospel Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 32 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 Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMANI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Heathwood Hall Episcopal School ↗
- Who funds MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER COMMONS ↗
- Who funds HANDSHAKE COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds Tara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy ↗
- Who funds BOK RANCH 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.
Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 David W and Susan G Robinson 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% 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.