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The Robins Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$172k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,454
Largest grant, FY2024
$63,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$355k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Robins Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving30$172k27%
FY202322$175k14%
FY202231$153k55%
FY202117$70k29%
FY202015$24k33%
FY201925$57k40%
FY201826$72k69%
FY201712$17kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$365kEducation$193kReligion$66kPhilanthropy$31kInternational$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kRecreation & Sports$14kHousing & Shelter$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Ps 166 Inc$136,400711%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$29,00030%
The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater$15,00050%
Esh Dat Inc$15,00058%
University of Rochester$15,00030%
World Central Kitchen Inc$14,00020%
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc$11,50020%
The Doe Fund Inc$9,00020%
Barrington Stage Company Inc$7,00070%
Congregation Rodeph Shalom Inc$4,6661n/a
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All grantees of The Robins Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Ps 166 Inc$136,400711%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$29,00030%
The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater$15,00050%
Esh Dat Inc$15,00058%
University of Rochester$15,00030%
World Central Kitchen Inc$14,00020%
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc$11,50020%
The Doe Fund Inc$9,00020%
Barrington Stage Company Inc$7,00070%
Congregation Rodeph Shalom Inc$4,6661n/a
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$3,80060%
The Paley Center for Media$3,75010%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$2,80030%
Beth Jacob of Boro Park$2,5004n/a
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc$2,50010%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$2,35030%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$2,00030%
Lakewood Cheder School Inc$2,00040%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$1,75430%
Nefesh Hachaim Inc$1,5003n/a
Jerusalem Open House$1,2003n/a
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc$1,00020%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$1,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$1,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association$1,00020%
The Carnegie Hall Society Inc$6001n/a
Havurat Yisrael$6001n/a
Albany Jewish Community Center$57510%
Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc$57210%
Yeshivas Novominsk$5001n/a
The Art League$50010%
Zionist Organization of America$50010%
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc$50010%
Dorot Inc$40010%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$30010%
Kehal Tiferes Yaakov$3001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($447k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robins Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Ps 166 Inc: $136,400 over 7y, 11% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEsh Dat Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetUniversity of Rochester: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRiverside Park Conservancy Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarrington Stage Company Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $3,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Paley Center for Media: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $2,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLakewood Cheder School Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $1,754 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlbany Jewish Community Center: $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $572 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Art League: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZionist Organization of America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 29.

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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 Ojc FundNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to The Robins Family Foundation?

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About The Robins Family Foundation

How much does The Robins Family Foundation give?
The Robins Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $172,265 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Robins Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Education (26%), Religion (9%).
Who are The Robins Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of Ps 166 Inc ($136k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($29k), The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater ($15k).
Does The Robins Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robins Family 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 Robins Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Robins Family Foundation based?
The Robins Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 79 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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