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The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2019
20
Grants FY2019
15
Organizations funded FY2019
87%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$514,826
Organizations funded a year
2 to 15
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 87% of the organizations The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201915$1.8M87%
FY20182$500kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Philanthropy$1.6MEducation$578kArts & Culture$343kReligion$256kHealth$60kFood & Nutrition$10kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nashville Public Library Foundation$507,41326%
Christ Church Cathedral$255,9311n/a
Alive Hospice Inc$60,00010%
Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation$51,4831n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc$10,00010%
Harding Academy$10,00010%
St Luke's Community House Inc$10,00010%
French Broad River Academy Inc$4,90810%
The Harpeth Hall School$3,75010%
Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee$3,75010%
Wo Smith Nashville Community Music School$2,50010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNashville Public Library Foundation: $507,413 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetAlive Hospice Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarding Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Luke's Community House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFrench Broad River Academy Inc: $4,908 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Harpeth Hall School: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWo Smith Nashville Community Music School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation · Henry Laird Smith Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation

How much does The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation give?
The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $2,328,937 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (55%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Nashville Public Library Foundation ($507k), Christ Church Cathedral ($256k), Alive Hospice Inc ($60k).
Does The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Dettwiller Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation based?
The Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation is based in TN.

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 16 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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