· Private foundation
The Robinson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| UPSTREAM USA | $10,000 |
| BETHLEHEM INN | $7,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF | $5,000 |
| BIENVENIDOS OUTREACH INC | $5,000 |
| END HUNGER IN CALVERT COUNTY | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PLACE | $5,000 |
| RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BINDER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $89k · revenue +30%
- THTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +26%
- FFFAMILIES FORWARD8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USAone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FFARESTARTone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -25%
- UIURBAN INITIATIVES INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
To serve homeless families by uniting faith community volunteers and local agencies in a cooperative effort to provide shelter, meals and compassionate ongoing support to our guests.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…
The mission of northern virginia family service (nvfs) is "to empower individuals and families to improve their quality of life, and to promote community cooperation and support in responding to family needs." nvfs was established in 1924…
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is The Family Effect. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH & WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Binder Park Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds BIENVENIDOS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds End Hunger in Calvert County Inc ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE OPERATING CO ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY EFFECT ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Robinson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- End Hunger in Calvert County Inc — 11% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.