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· Private foundation
THE MARGARET ANN & WALTER ROBINSON
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$2.3M
Granted FY2019
20
Grants
5
Communities
$515k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of THE MARGARET ANN & WALTER ROBINSON’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
dissolution finaldonor advisedchrist churchchurch cathedral
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2019 · 20 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $457k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND WALTER M ROBINSON DONOR ADVISED FUND$514,826
- FIDELTY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND KELLY FAMILY GIVING FUND$514,826
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST EMMIE ROBINSON RICK DONOR ADVI$514,826
- NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$257,413
- CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL$205,931
- HISTORIC TRAVELERS REST PLANTATION & MUSEUM$90,000
- ALIVE HOSPICE$60,000
- THE FRANK AND CALLA BELL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$51,483
- CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL$50,000
- CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS$10,000
- SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN$10,000
- HARDING ACADEMY$10,000
- ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE$10,000
- FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY$4,908
- BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND WALTER M ROBINSON DONOR ADVISED FUND$4,908
02The need
04
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 (FY19–19, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Nashville Academy Theatre and
Nashville children's theatre is a professional theatre company providing the children, families, and educators of middle tennessee with extraordinary shared theatrical experiences that inspire imagination, develop creativity, and build…
Arts & Culture
2
The Harvey School
A coeducational college-preparatory school for students in grades 6-12.
Education
3
Hackley School
The school is an independent, college preparatory school (k through 12) for boys and girls.
Health
4
Memphis University School
College preparatory secondary school for boys
Education
5
Vanderbilt University
See Disclosure Above.
Education
6
The Hill School
Secondary boarding/day educational institution
Education
7
The Norfolk Academy
Norfolk academy seeks to offer a coordinated program for students, building and expanding on knowledge and experience from grades one through twelve.
Education
8
Kings Academy Nashville
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Education
9
Haverford School
A non-sectarian college prep school pre-k-12, educates qualified boys of differing backgrounds.
Education
10
Hardin-Simmons University
To be a community providing excellence in education enlightened by Christian faith and values.
Education
11
Stars Nashville
Supports young people through the social and emotional barriers they face. our five evidence-based school and community programs address issues like bullying prevention, substance misuse, violence and other mental health issues. in…
Health
12
Heritage Christian Academy
To serve the community as an evangelical christian school for education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Luke's Community House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harding Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,219,116Education$526,071Human Services$70,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Youth Development$3,750
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.
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 Community Foundation of MiddleTN19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Dettwiller Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bryant Family Foundation · Milton and Denice Johnson Family · Henry Laird Smith Foundation · Horatio B & Willie J Buntin Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 organisation THE MARGARET ANN & WALTER ROBINSON 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~50 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 621681766 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 50 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson?
Find your warmest path to The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines