· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $361k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAVERFORD COLLEGE | $400,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| HAVERFORD COLLEGE | $61,001 |
| THE DALTON SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE DALTON SCHOOL | $25,001 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $25,001 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC (DBA THE IRISH ARTS CENTER) | $10,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| FRANCISCAN MISSION ASSOCIATES | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 74% of The Robinson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DSDALTON SCHOOLS INC4× · 2023–2026 · $200k · revenue +2%
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY5× · 2022–2026 · $190k · revenue +4%- QCQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INCone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
The Trustees of Princeton Universityone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -36%- QCQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ACCT #31010 THE SINOP ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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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.
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Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Taos Sports Associates Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robinson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robinson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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