· Private foundation
Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda
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 · $87k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $257k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Marcos Academy | $580,000 |
| South Texas Childrens Home | $580,000 |
| First Baptist Church | $142,000 |
| Texas A M University | $115,000 |
| Jackson County Emergency Management | $33,000 |
| Ganado Volunteer Fire Department | $33,000 |
| Texas State University | $28,000 |
| Sam Houston State University | $25,500 |
| Texans on Mission | $20,000 |
| Guadalupe Baptist Association | $20,000 |
| University of Texas | $17,500 |
| Jackson County Young Life | $17,000 |
| University of Texas San Antonio | $16,500 |
| Texas Tech University | $15,500 |
| Baptist General Conv of Texas | $15,000 |
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, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
146 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 112 since wound down; 14 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $702k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHHELPING HANDS OF JACKSON COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +32% · 34% of their budget
- BTBILLY T CATTAN RECOVERY OUTREACH2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +234%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $55k
- RJRestorative Justice Ministryone grant, 2018 · $40k
- EEEDNA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -79% · 29% of their budget
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.
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
We prepare students in our christian academic community to excel as thoughtful, resourceful, and responsible citizens with a passion for serving god, the church, and the world. we accomplish this through excellent teaching, high…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 297 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust · Rc Caffarelli Educational Fund Frost Bank Trustee · Building Bridge Foundation · The Kathryn O'Connor Foundation · Texas Higher Education Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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