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The Robbins Family Foundation at a glance

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The Robbins Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$9.6MHealth$447kEducation$423kScience & Tech$400kReligion$216kCivil Rights$155kArts & Culture$95kHuman Services$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $441k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$12,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$400,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$125,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$100,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC$66,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS INC$50,000
TEMPLE SHOLOM INC$28,109
MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC$27,500
THE FOX CLUB UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM$20,950
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$20,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC$12,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC$10,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF PALM BEACH INC$7,200
THE JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC$5,000
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 (FY23–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5k → 17%FRIENDS OF BET ELAZRAKI - EMTC: $1k → 7%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $28k → 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 23 repeat orgs$418k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
25

Total granted

$1.1M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+6%

Still filing today

74%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +4%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +44%
  • TS
    The Society of the Four Arts Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • UF
    UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -5%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -15%
  • MH
    MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +29%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Khaliq Melle Sanda Foundation Incc. 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

51 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. 51 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
25/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+7 more: $89,500 · Education+7 moreTEMPLE SHOLOM INC: $124,537 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOM INCMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $115,300 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CAN…UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $75,000 · OtherUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH …CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $43,350 · OtherCONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOMTEMPLE EMANU-EL OF PALM BEACH INC: $34,860 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-EL OF PALM BEAC…MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $30,000 · OtherMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW U…+15 more: $56,200 · Other+15 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $75,100 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CA…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $72,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDE…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $38,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWI…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $8,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $4,040 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $125,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $20,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $10,000 · Health+7 more: $4,750 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $125,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $30,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $200 · Civil RightsMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $75,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Life: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$789,500Other$509,247Philanthropy$207,140Health$159,750Civil Rights$155,200Human Services$124,500Arts & Culture$95,000

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $75,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $72,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $38,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOX CLUB UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrothers for Life: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMB FOR HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FLORENCE MELTON ADULT MINI-SCHOOL CORPORATION: $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BET ELAZRAKI - EMTC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWeinstein Hospice Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $200 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jill and Mark Rachesk…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY21.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jill and Mark Rachesky Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Robbins Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robbins Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get 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 · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Robbins Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Robbins Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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