· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2019.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| HARDING ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN | $10,000 |
| FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY | $4,908 |
| FIDELTY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND KELLY FAMILY GIVING FUND | $4,908 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
The haverford school, a non-sectarian college preparatory school for junior kindergarten through grade twelve, provides a superior liberal arts education for qualified boys of differing backgrounds. we are committed to developing the full…
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
Harvard-westlake strives to be a diverse and inclusive community united by the joyful pursuit of educational excellence, living and learning with integrity, and purpose beyond ourselves.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Webb's mission is to provide a dynamic learning community that nurtures and inspires our students and alumni to think boldly, mindfully, and creatively; act with honor and moral courage; lead with distinction; and serve with a generous…
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
The hill school prepares students from across the country and around the world for college, careers and life. within a family school environment and a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, we challenge our young people to work hard; think and…
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…
Rumsey hall school is committed to the whole child approach to education and believes that teaching academics and teaching an attitude of mind are of equal importance. the school emphasizes effort as a criterion for success and is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harding Academy and the most unlike its peers is Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds WO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
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.
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
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 Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.