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The Robinson Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$854k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2026
6
Organizations funded FY2025
33%
First-time grantees FY2025
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54% of The Robinson Family Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to Corporation Of Haverford College, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’22
4
’23
3
’24
3
’25
2
’26

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2026
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$400,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 6
FY2022 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
4
Total assets, FY2026
$3.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 33% of the organizations The Robinson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
EducationInternationalOther
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
FY2026still arriving6$393k33%
FY20256$199k33%
FY20246$140k17%
FY20236$115k33%
FY20226$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$1.5MInternational$13kReligion$10kArts & Culture$2kRecreation & Sports$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($460k), not named here.

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About The Robinson Family Foundation

How much does The Robinson Family Foundation give?
The Robinson Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $853,503 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2025.
What does The Robinson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (98%), International (1%), Religion (1%).
Who are The Robinson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2026: Dalton Schools Inc ($200k), Phillips Exeter Academy ($190k), National Committee on American Foreign Policy Inc ($10k).
Does The Robinson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robinson 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.
Where is The Robinson Family Foundation based?
The Robinson 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 14 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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