· Private foundation
The Robinson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $7,150 |
| UNC-CHAPEL HILL | $2,200 |
| GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 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 FY2024, 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
- KIKIDZ1STFUND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +35%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +100%
- BSB'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TOTown of Palm Beach United Way Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +54%
- PBPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +192%
- KCKEMP CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Guided by jewish values of tzedakah (justice), tikkun olam (healing the world), and klal yisrael (jewish peoplehood), the mission of the foundation is to provide continuity of financial support to jewish institutions and programs, as well…
The gordon jewish community center welcomes all, builds community, and provides excellent programs rooted in jewish values to enrich the mind, body, and spirit.
To build / maintain a strong and united jewish community in order to ensure the continuity of the jewish people. the federation is the central agency for meeting jewish needs and articulating jewish concerns in the capital region, in…
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
The mission of the Charleston Jewish Federation is to build, secure and sustain Jewish life in Charleston, Israel, and around the world.
We provide engaging opportunities that deepen jewish connections, knowledge and relations to israel; services for helping those in need; programs that foster healthy living; and pathways for chartiable giving.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.
To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.
To advance philanthropy through education and to raise permanent charitable resources to improve and strengthen the quality of jewish life.
The mission of the jewish endowment foundation of south carolina is to educate, strengthen and support the sc jewish community by uniting people, and investing resources; and to lead and facilitate a culture of philanthropy and shared…
Together with its diverse communities, the organization collects objects and stories, connects generations, and challenges people to explore our city's past, present and future. the museum sparks wonder through bold exhibitions and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is KIDZ1STFUND Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDZ1STFUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds B'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION 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: The Ackermann Foundation · The Kraus Family Foundation Co Emanuel V Dinatale · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Jack Levin Foundation Inc · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Hagan Family Fund · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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