· Private foundation
The Franklin Lewis Robuck Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE FRANKLIN LEWIS ROBUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST'S SANC HOLY CHURCH | $118,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC | $26,000 |
| LYNDA RANDLE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| KAY YOW CANCER FUNDS | $25,000 |
| HOPE REINS | $25,000 |
| SOWING SEED INC | $20,000 |
| UNITED MISSION FUND | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF RALEIGH | $10,000 |
| REFUGEE HOPE PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| YOUR CENTER PEACE | $5,000 |
| FAITH IN ACTION | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | $5,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER OF THE TRIANGLE | $5,000 |
| RALEIGH DREAM CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $464k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- RDRALEIGH DREAM CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $445k · revenue ×18
- LRLYNDA RANDLE MINISTRIES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $170k · revenue +40%
HOPE REINS7× · 2018–2024 · $134k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- CHCHURCH HOME REHAB & HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $19k
- EWEAST WAKE ATHLETIC CLUBone grant, 2023 · $12k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE - CRISIS IN UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
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…
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
To equip families and individuals in crisis with the resources and skills needed to achieve stability.
This organization exists to restore men and women to live from their heart - as God's intimate allies - by recovering the treasure of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, entrusting that message to the people who have been transformed by it, and to…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Line 1, Description of organization mission: Our mission is to help fulfill the great commission of making disciples through biblical counseling, coaching, small groups, speaking and writing. To provide a safe environment for adults and…
Our mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and creating charitable giving strategies among individuals, families, businesses, advisors, ministries and non-profits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chincoteague Island Library Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 62 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 RALEIGH DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds LYNDA RANDLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds Your CenterPeace Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESERVING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MINA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Benchmark Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds Refugee Hope Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · John & Frances Morisey Trust Account · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Thomas & Kate Fonville Account · Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation · Aj Fletcher 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 Franklin Lewis Robuck Family Foundation Inc 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.
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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