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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.

$36k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$81kReligion$53kEducation$18kArts & Culture$9kHealth$5kYouth Development$4kHuman Services$2k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$7,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE$25,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO$7,150
UNC-CHAPEL HILL$2,200
GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCOTTYS HOUSE: $500 → 22%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $5k → 11%KIDZ 1ST FUND: $2k → 19%UNC CHAPEL HILL: $2k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO: $6k → 16%KEMP CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $500 → 22%PALM BEACH UNITED WAY: $2k → 11%KIDZ 1ST FUND: $2k → 19%UNC CHAPEL HILL: $2k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO: $6k → 16%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%KIDZ 1ST FUND: $2k → 19%UNC CHAPEL HILL: $2k → 13%ROTARY CAROUSEL LLC: $2k → 16%UNC CHAPEL HILL: $2k → 13%ROTARY CAROUSEL LLC: $2k → 16%UNC-CHAPEL HILL: $2k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL: $2k → 13%CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL: $1k → 13%ARTS GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL: $1k → 13%CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%ARTS GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%CAROLINA THEATRE: $1k → 16%ARTS GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%ARTS GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%CAROLINA THEATRE: $1k → 16%GREENSBORO CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $500 → 16%BETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE: $25k → 16%GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION: $14k → 16%GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION: $14k → 16%GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION: $13k → 16%BETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 16%BETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 16%BETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 16%B'NAI SHALOM SCHOOL: $3k → 16%B'NAI SHALOM SCHOOL: $3k → 16%GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION: $2k → 16%CHABAD JEWISH CENTER: $2k → 16%CHABAD JEWISH CENTER: $540 → 16%CHABAD JEWISH CENTER: $540 → 16%CHABAD JEWISH CENTER: $540 → 16%UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO: $7k → 16%UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO: $5k → 16%UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO: $4k → 16%UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO: $4k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107k · 13 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$107k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+192%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KI
    KIDZ1STFUND INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +35%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +100%
  • BS
    B'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TO
    Town of Palm Beach United Way Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +54%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +192%
  • SH
    SCOTTYS HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $500
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Jewish Foundation of Greensboro

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…

Philanthropy
2
Jewish Community Center of Nashville

The gordon jewish community center welcomes all, builds community, and provides excellent programs rooted in jewish values to enrich the mind, body, and spirit.

Human Services
3
United Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York Inc

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…

Philanthropy
4
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Charleston Jewish Federation Inc

The mission of the Charleston Jewish Federation is to build, secure and sustain Jewish life in Charleston, Israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
6
Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation

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.

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7
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

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…

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
9
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.

Philanthropy
10
Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community

To advance philanthropy through education and to raise permanent charitable resources to improve and strengthen the quality of jewish life.

Religion
11
Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina

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…

Philanthropy
12
Greensboro Historical Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION: $41,700 · PhilanthropyGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATIONUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $19,450 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $13,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyBETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE: $46,000 · OtherBETH DAVID SYNAGOGUEUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $11,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLB'NAI SHALOM SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherB'NAI SHALOM SCHOOLROTARY CAROUSEL LLC: $4,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION: $3,500 · OtherCHABAD JEWISH CENTER: $3,420 · Other+6 more: $6,500 · Other+6 moreUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureKIDZ1STFUND INC: $4,500 · Health
Philanthropy$80,650Other$79,420Arts & Culture$6,000Health$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION: $41,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $19,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDZ1STFUND INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Ackermann Foundat…The Kraus Family Foun…The Cemala Foundation…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Jack Levin Founda…Well-Spring Retiremen…Hagan Family FundMoses H Cone Memorial…Tannenbaum-Sternberge…Hillsdale FundLincoln Financial Fou…Foundation for the Ca…
The Ackermann FoundationNC17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robinson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robinson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Robinson Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Robinson Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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