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The Jim and Linda Robinson Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$275k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Health$701kEducation$270kSocial Science$70kRecreation & Sports$50kAnimals$35kCommunity Improvement$25kArts & Culture$12kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hosp of Chicago$50,000
Johns Hopkins Children's Center$50,000
St Francis Hospital Foundation$50,000
NAF$50,000
Brookings Institute$50,000
New York City Partnership Foundation$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%St Francis Hospital Foundation: $50k → 6%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $1.0M → 7%NAF: $50k → 17%Brookings Institute: $50k → 14%Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hosp of Chicago: $50k → 14%Johns Hopkins Children's Center: $50k → 19%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $812k → 7%New York City Partnership Foundation: $25k → 17%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $811k → 7%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.

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.

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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$490k · 5 repeat orgs$699k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
28

Total granted

$490k
$524k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+15%

Still filing today

80%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’22’23
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +14%
  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    2× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +19%
  • CM
    CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +409%

Funded once

  • MS
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • JH
    Johns Hopkins University (Childrens Center)
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • NP
    NY Presbyterian Hospital
    one grant, 2017 · $50k

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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 64 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr14%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr14%50%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
13%
9,622/73,342

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — $100,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterJohns Hopkins University (Childrens Center) — $75,000 · OtherJohns Hopkins University (Childrens Center)NAF — $75,000 · OtherNAFJohns Hopkins Children's Center — $50,000 · OtherJohns Hopkins Children's CenterNY Presbyterian Hospital — $50,000 · OtherNY Presbyterian HospitalSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 · OtherHarvard Business School — $20,000 · OtherNew York City Partnership Foundation Inc — $25,000 · Other+9 more — $61,500 · Other+9 moreAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $150,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children…CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $90,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INCST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO…BONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · HealthTHE DEBUTANTE COTILLION AND CHRISTMAS BALL INC — $15,000 · Health+2 more — $2,500 · HealthTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $110,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTDTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMB…The Trustees of Princeton University — $45,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Prince…PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE — $25,000 · EducationPACKER COLLEGIATE INST…Cornell University — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $8,500 · EducationMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $50,000 · Social ScienceSTREETSQUASH INC — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $35,000 · Animals
Other$481,500Health$322,500Education$248,500Human Services$65,000Social Science$50,000Recreation & Sports$36,000Animals$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York City Partnership Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DEBUTANTE COTILLION AND CHRISTMAS BALL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Club of Boston — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 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.

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Jim and Linda Robinson 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Jim and Linda Robinson Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Jim and Linda Robinson Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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