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The Joel P and Ricki G Robinson Family Foundation

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.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE JOEL P AND RICKI G ROBINSON FAMILY 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.

02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $88k
$8,750
Median grant
3
States reached
$516k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$47,500
MURALISM$30,000
OUTWARD BOUND ADVENTURES INC$10,000
VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES$8,750
PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$7,500
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$5,000
AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $1k → 14%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$375k · 8 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$375k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+2%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • VE
    VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES
    4× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +32%
  • PE
    PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +254%
  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $46k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $49k
  • PF
    Profectum Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -25%
  • PF
    PROTECTION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

2
Boston Architectural College

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

3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
5
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

6
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
7
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
8
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
9
Epacenter

Epacenter's mission is to increase opportunities for youth to discover and amplify their talents, realize their potential, and impact the world through art, design, and technology.

Arts & Culture
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $90,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMURALISM — $85,000 · OtherMURALISMIndividual grant recipient — $49,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPROTECTION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Other+6 more — $18,250 · Other+6 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $70,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of …VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES — $58,750 · EducationVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES3LPlace Inc — $5,000 · EducationPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $56,050 · PhilanthropyPASADENA ED…+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $45,500 · Arts & CultureHENRY E H…Outward Bound Adventures — $30,000 · Environment+1 more — $500 · EnvironmentProfectum Foundation — $25,000 · HealthEXCEPTIONAL MINDS — $1,000 · Human ServicesADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION — $545 · Recreation & Sports
Other$252,750Education$133,750Philanthropy$57,050Arts & Culture$45,500Environment$30,500Health$25,000Human Services$1,000Recreation & Sports$545

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 budgetMURALISM — $85,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES — $58,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $56,050 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $45,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOutward Bound Adventures — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetProfectum Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB — $7,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budget3LPlace Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL MINDS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION — $545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB — $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 Do & Rickles Family Charitable FoundationFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Do & Rickles Family Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Joel P and Ricki G Robinson Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 21 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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