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William & Mai Robinson Charitable Trust

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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$158kHuman Services$42kEnvironment$42kHealth$32kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,610
Median grant
1
States reached
$638k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD AND MIGRANT SERVICES$3,611
STRIVE FBO WESTERN COLO BONTANICAL GARDENS$3,611
EURAKA McCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM$3,611
COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST$3,610
GRAND JUNCTION CENTENNIAL BAND$3,610
MUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO$3,610
GRAND JUNCTION SYMPHONY FOUNDATION$3,610
Individual grant recipient$3,610
MARILLAC HEALTH$3,610
WESTERN COLORADO CENTER ARTS$3,610
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 11%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach: $4k → 11%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach: $3k → 11%Grand Valley Catholic Outreach: $3k → 11%CHILD AND MIGRANT SERVICES: $4k → 11%CHILD AND MIGRANT SERVICES: $4k → 11%CHILD AND MIGRANT SERVICES: $4k → 11%Child & Migrant Services Inc: $4k → 11%CHILD AND MIGRANT SERVICES: $4k → 11%Child & Migrant Services Inc: $3k → 11%CHILD AND MIGRANT SERVICES: $3k → 11%CHILD AND MIGRANT SERVICES: $3k → 11%Child & Migrant Services Inc: $3k → 11%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$309k · 14 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$309k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+189%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • EM
    EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +22%
  • MC
    MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +363%
  • LP
    LA PLAZA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +503%

Funded once

  • WC
    Western Colo Center for the Arts Endowment Fnd Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +189%
  • WC
    Western Colorado Botanical Gardens
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Grand Junction Economic Partnership

The mission of the grand junction economic partnership is to generate high quality economic development by attracting business and quality jobs to mesa county, colorado.

Community Improvement
2
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

The museum of contemporary art denver is an innovative forum for contemporary art that inspires and challenges all audiences, creating understanding and dialogue about art of our time.

Arts & Culture
3
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

—
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Gunnison Council for the Arts

The Gunnison Arts Center creates community through the arts by providing accessible and inclusive programs, events, and educational experiences that foster creativity, support local artists, and enrich lives.

Arts & Culture
6
The Center for the Arts

The center for arts, a home for arts and culture, offers engaging opportunities and educational experiences to enrich and expand the life of our community.

Arts & Culture
7
San Juan Mountains Association

To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.

Environment
8
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

—
9
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
10
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

—
11
Museo De Las Americas

The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…

Arts & Culture
12
Bisbee Council on the Arts and Humanities

Through the operation of museums and support of historic preservation we will attempt to interpret and conserve our historical and cultural heritage. Through the presentation and support of cultural and educational programs we will attempt…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grand Junction Symphony Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 16 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND JUNCTION CENTENNIAL BAND: $31,619 · OtherGRAND JUNCTION CENTENNIAL BANDIndividual grant recipient: $21,515 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWESTERN COLORADO CENTER ARTS: $21,515 · OtherWESTERN COLORADO CENTER ARTSWESTERN COLO BONTANICAL GARDENS: $14,619 · OtherWESTERN COLO BONTANICAL GARDENSSTRIVE FBO WESTERN COLO BONTANICAL GARDENS: $6,896 · OtherSTRIVE FBO WESTERN COLO BONTANICAL GARD…Strive Western Colorado Botanical Gardens: $6,754 · OtherStrive Western Colorado Botanical Garde…+2 more: $6,699 · Other+2 moreEUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM: $31,623 · Arts & CultureEUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUMMUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO INC: $31,619 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO INCGRAND JUNCTION SYMPHONY FOUNDATION: $31,619 · Arts & CultureGRAND JUNCTION SYMPHONY FOUNDATIONThe Art Center of Western Colorado Inc: $6,754 · Arts & CultureThe Art Center of Western Colorado I…LA PLAZA: $31,620 · Human ServicesLA PLAZAGRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $10,105 · Human ServicesGRAND VALLEY C…MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $31,621 · EnvironmentMESA COUNTY…MARILLAC CLINIC INC: $31,619 · HealthMARILLAC CL…
Other$109,617Arts & Culture$101,615Human Services$41,725Environment$31,621Health$31,619

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM: $31,623 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $31,621 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLA PLAZA: $31,620 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO INC: $31,619 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMARILLAC CLINIC INC: $31,619 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND JUNCTION SYMPHONY FOUNDATION: $31,619 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetGRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $10,105 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Art Center of Western Colorado Inc: $6,754 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWestern Colo Center for the Arts Endowment Fnd Inc: $3,350 over 1y, 16% 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.

  • Who funds EUREKA MCCONNELL SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds LA PLAZA ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF WESTERN COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds MARILLAC CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND JUNCTION SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds The Art Center of Western Colorado Inc ↗
  • Who funds Western Colo Center for the Arts Endowment Fnd Inc ↗

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.

Western Colorado Community Foundation IncCO19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Goodwin Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Wilson Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 William & Mai Robinson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Mai Robinson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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