· Private foundation
The Sanford N and Judith Robinson Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of The Sanford N and Judith Robinson Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Pittsburgh, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $30,000 |
| WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| CHABAD OF SQUIRREL HILL | $6,000 |
| HIDDEN WINGS | $3,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION - HOLOCAUST CENTER | $2,500 |
| YOUNG ADULT SURVIVORS UNITED | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| QUANTUM THEATRE | $1,000 |
| JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING | $500 |
| ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA PITTSBURGH | $250 |
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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 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
- WTWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL5× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +36%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +11%- HWHIDDEN WINGS3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +61%
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +40%- FOFEDERATION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CISone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TSTHE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +97%
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
Primary exempt purpose - to ensure the future of southwestern pennsylvania's health care industry and to work collaboratively with all stakeholders to attract, support, and retain healthcare workers
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
To create a transformative educational experience for students focused on deep disciplinary knowledge; problem solving; leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; and personal health and well-being. to cultivate a transformative…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 27 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN WINGS ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SLC6A1 CONNECT ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ADULT SURVIVORS UNITED ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS ↗
- Who funds PINE-RICHLAND OPPORTUNITIES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FILM PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGON'S DEN ↗
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 Pittsburgh Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · The Grable Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Ellen and Jack Kessler Family Foundation C/O Jj Kessler · The Benter Foundation · McKinney Charitable 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 Sanford N and Judith Robinson Family 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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