Texas · Private foundation
Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $580,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 156
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $1.8M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.6M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $1.7M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.7M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $1.4M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $1.4M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $1.4M | 74% |
| FY2018 | 156 | $1.4M | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Marcos Baptist Academy | $3,770,405 | 8 | n/a |
| Promise Pointe Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Helping Hands of Jackson County Inc | $125,000 | 9 | 34% |
| Sam Houston State University | $96,500 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Houston | $88,750 | 7 | n/a |
| Billy T Cattan Recovery Outreach | $75,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Baylor University | $56,750 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | $52,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Shiloh Baptist Church | $36,795 | 2 | n/a |
| Bluebonnet Youth Ranch | $33,000 | 5 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Marcos Baptist Academy | $3,770,405 | 8 | n/a |
| Promise Pointe Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Helping Hands of Jackson County Inc | $125,000 | 9 | 34% |
| Sam Houston State University | $96,500 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Houston | $88,750 | 7 | n/a |
| Billy T Cattan Recovery Outreach | $75,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Baylor University | $56,750 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | $52,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Shiloh Baptist Church | $36,795 | 2 | n/a |
| Bluebonnet Youth Ranch | $33,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Ganado Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $33,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Lutheran University | $32,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Houston Christian University | $27,649 | 6 | 0% |
| Edna Education Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 29% |
| The Master's University and Seminary | $21,543 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Elder Citizens | $20,746 | 2 | 1% |
| Texas Baptist Men Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Perpetual Help Home Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Christ's Kitchen | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Focus on the Family | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Olivia Community Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Del Mar College | $9,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Univ of Texas at Arlington | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Jackson County Youth Fair Association | $8,065 | 3 | 3% |
| College of the Ozarks | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cisco College | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Southwest Texas Junior College | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Global Service Network Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Vine School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jews for Jesus | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Community Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Schreiner University | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of the Incarnate Word | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of St Thomas | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern New Hampshire University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Howard Payne University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Collin County Community | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Jacinto Community College District | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Mountain Christian University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Wesleyan University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 256 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda
- How much does Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda give?
- Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda reported 48 grants totaling $1,810,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 156 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Human Services (34%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Marcos Baptist Academy ($3.8M), Promise Pointe Inc ($150k), Helping Hands of Jackson County Inc ($125k).
- Does Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation.
- Where is Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda based?
- Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda is based in TX.
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