· Private foundation
The Robinson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST BOSTON | $34,200 |
| ABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC | $15,000 |
| UCI FOUNDATION(THE LESLIE ANN FERREE MEMORIAL COMPASSION AWARD) | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIREMEN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TROY BASEBALL BOOSTERS CO TROY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MIRACLEFEET | $5,000 |
| ONEOC | $5,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALPHA DELTA PI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PEO STAR SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| THE CEDARS CAMPS INC | $2,500 |
| PACIFIC SYMPHONY | $2,500 |
| BABY2BABY | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +13%
- CBChorale Bel Canto9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +38%
- AWAge Well Senior Services Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- OBOCFA BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION (MAUI FIREFIGHTERS)one grant, 2024 · $17k
- NONORTH ORANGE COUNTY FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NLNO LIMITS LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +6%
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.
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See Disclosure Above.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 79 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 ABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Chorale Bel Canto ↗
- Who funds Age Well Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ALPHA DELTA PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWELVEACRES INC ↗
- Who funds Outward Bound Adventures ↗
- Who funds Diabetes Camping & Education Services ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRICS-ADOLESCENT DIABETES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Clairbourn School Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY HALL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Serving People In Need Inc ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Firemen's Relief Association ↗
- Who funds WHITTIER REGIONAL SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds ONEOC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NO LIMITS LEARNING CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · California Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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