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The Joel P and Ricki G Robinson Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$132kEmployment$85kHealth$84kArts & Culture$52kEnvironment$31kCrime & Legal$10kRecreation & Sports$8kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

+83%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • M
    MURALISM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +22%
  • VE
    VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES
    4× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +32%
  • PE
    PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +254%

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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2
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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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Do & Rickles Fami…California Community …American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Joel P and Ricki G Robinson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joel P and Ricki G Robinson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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