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The Robin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$176k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$195kYouth Development$141kHealth$124kHuman Services$123kFood & Nutrition$120kCommunity Improvement$114kArts & Culture$107kCrime & Legal$87kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERMONT ABENAKI ARTISTS ASSOCIATION$25,000
HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL$25,000
OUTRIGHT VERMONT$25,000
AMANECER COUNSELING & RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
THE BEAR PROJECT$20,000
CENTRAL DELAWARE HOUSING COLLABORATIVE$20,000
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE$15,600
RETREAT FARM GRANT$15,000
PROJECT NEW START$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNSEL: $20k → 7%SUSU COMMUNITY FARM: $20k → 11%SOUTHERN DELAWARE THERAPEUTIC RECREATIONAL HORESBACK RIDING: $11k → 10%OUR PLACE DROP-IN-CENTER: $10k → 11%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL: $30k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL: $25k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL: $24k → 8%FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $20k → 10%FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $18k → 10%FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $15k → 10%FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY: $10k → 10%KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%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

VT
NY
MA
SD
PA
VA
DE
DC
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$602k · 15 repeat orgs$597k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
35

Total granted

$602k
$507k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+31%

Still filing today

60%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • BP
    BEAR PROJECT INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +13%
  • HP
    HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $79k · revenue +604%
  • DS
    DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $76k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • FC
    FOOD CONNECTSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +55%
  • LY
    LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +144%
  • GI
    GEDAKINA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +12%
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
Community Dispute Settlement Program of Delaware County Inc

The organization provides alternative dispute resolution services through delaware and chester counties.

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2
Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware

To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
3
Delaware Opportunities Inc

Community action agency

Community Improvement
4
Delaware Advancement Corporation

To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.

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5
Delaware Prosperity Partnership Inc

To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.

Community Improvement
6
Community Housing & Empowerment Connection Inc
Housing & Shelter
7
Delaware Center for Health Innovation Inc

The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.

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8
Delaware Futures Inc

Delaware Futures serves middle and high school students throughout Delaware who face significant academic, social, and economic barriers.

Education
9
Child Inc

To be the leading advocate for delaware's children. we provide creative prevention and treatment programs that meet the changing needs of families. we serve dependent, neglected, and abused children and their parents. we provide programs…

Human Services
10
Challenge Program Inc

Our mission is to provide vocational training for delaware's at-risk youth to empower them with the confidence, skills and purpose needed to become productive members of society. since 1995, the challenge program has offered young people…

Education
11
Camden Center for Youth Development Inc

To educate and train troubled youth to become productive citizens

Crime & Legal
12
Springboard Delaware

To build affordable housing communities that foster well-being for all delawareans in need.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethiopian Community Dev Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Elevated Community Development Corporation. 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

42 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. 42 of the 54 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $45,000 · OtherWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCRETREAT FARM GRANT: $35,000 · OtherRETREAT FARM GRANTIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherVERMONT ABENAKI ARTISTS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherYOUTH SERVICES: $20,000 · OtherOUT IN THE OPEN: $20,000 · OtherAMANECER COUNSELING & RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $20,000 · OtherYOUNG MOMS: $18,900 · OtherFOOD CONNECTS: $50,000 · OtherFOOD CONNECTSCHRISTINA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $20,000 · OtherDUFFYS HOPE INC: $20,000 · OtherELEVATED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $18,750 · OtherOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $107,120 · Other+12 moreHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $79,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS PREVENTION CO…FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $62,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY COUNSELING CENT…THEATRE ADVENTURE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHEATRE ADVENTURE INCETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DE…SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSUSU COMMUNITY FARM IN…SOUTHERN DELAWARE THERAPEUTIC & RECREATIONAL HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $11,200 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY: $10,000 · Human ServicesKINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOUR PLACE DROP IN CENTER INC OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesBEAR PROJECT INC: $80,000 · Community ImprovementBEAR PROJECT…GEDAKINA INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementGEDAKINA INCEDGE For Tomorrow: $17,500 · Community ImprovementEDGE For Tom…COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF CAPE COD & ISLANDS INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY AC…DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC: $75,600 · HealthPreston's March for Energy Inc: $10,000 · HealthLEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $20,000 · EducationVETERANS WATCHMAKER INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 · EducationIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC: $10,000 · EducationCAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · EducationPROJECT NEW START INC: $57,000 · Crime & LegalDELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $20,000 · Crime & LegalCHAMP HOMES INC: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL DELAWARE HOUSING COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterStehm Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $8,660 · Housing & Shelter
Other$519,770Human Services$242,700Community Improvement$132,500Health$85,600Education$80,000Crime & Legal$77,000Housing & Shelter$61,160

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEAR PROJECT INC: $80,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $79,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC: $75,600 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $62,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetPROJECT NEW START INC: $57,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHAMP HOMES INC: $22,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGEDAKINA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCHRISTINA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHEATRE ADVENTURE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCENTRAL DELAWARE HOUSING COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVETERANS WATCHMAKER INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetDUFFYS HOPE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEDGE For Tomorrow: $17,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTEENSHARP: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF CAPE COD & ISLANDS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN DELAWARE THERAPEUTIC & RECREATIONAL HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $11,200 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStehm Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLA ESPERANZA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPreston's March for Energy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR PLACE DROP IN CENTER INC OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $8,660 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC: $7,620 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDELAWARE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS INC: $6,800 over 1y, 11% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $5,000 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.

Delaware Community Fo…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Longwood Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncWsfs Cares FoundationChichester Dupont Fou…Crestlea Foundation I…The Vermont Community…Incyte Charitable Giv…Milton and Hattie Kut…The Windham Foundatio…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE50.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Duffys Hope Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Northern New Castle County: 73% of income from government
  • Delaware Center for Justice: 73% of income from government
  • Community Education Building Corp: 64% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Children's Place Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Root Social Justice Center Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: 41% of income from government
  • Leading Youth Through Empowerment Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Project New Start Inc: 37% of income from government
  • West End Neighborhood House Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Veterans Watchmaker Initiative Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Stehm Inc: 22% of income from government
  • La Esperanza Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Food Connects: 15% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
  • Teensharp: 11% of income from government
  • Kingswood Community Center Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Susu Community Farm Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Delaware Theatre Company: 8% of income from government
  • Edge for Tomorrow: 7% of income from government
  • Homeless Prevention Council Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Delaware Contemporary Arts Inc Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Central Delaware Housing Collaborative Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Theatre Adventure Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
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 Robin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Robin 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 54 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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