Kentucky · Nonprofit
WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC
WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,996 to it, the largest being HANDS HEALING HEARTS INC ($280,875). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $619k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $428k
- Net assets
- $80k
What Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the wanda joyce robinson foundation is to provide mentorship and resources to children, youth, and families impacted by incarceration. The foundation has the unique capacity to "fill the gaps" that macro-level social services unintentionally create. The foundation unites the offender, their children, law enforcement, correctional system, schools, mental health services, government and businesses to create a family network. Within this network, the foundation provides mentorship programs for both the incarcerated parent and child; support services for non- incarcerated parents and caregivers; training for educators; and opportunities for relationship building in the community. It is the vision of the foundation to end the cycle of incarceration by providing the children and youth we serve a path of hope and a vision of a successful future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation offers programming for children, youth, caregivers, and justice involved parents. More than 500 children and youth are served by wjrf through a school-based social emotional support group for students who have or have had an incarcerated parent, one-to-one and group mentoring, operation making a change- omac an intervention program for justice involved youth, high school outreach, scholarships for graduating seniors, and a variety of positive youth development programs.
$480,865 spent94% of program spendingFor caregivers, the foundation assists with community based referrals, basic needs assistance, and support groups. For justice involved parents, wjrf offers parenting classes, 4h life programming which includes contact visitation between parent and child, video visitation, and re-entry support.
$32,132 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $512,997.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $76k to $150k (+97%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Todd Horstmeyer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $511 → $16k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 38% · 2022 68% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
14% of WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC?
- WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,996 to it, the largest being HANDS HEALING HEARTS INC ($280,875). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $427,996 in grants to WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC?
- HANDS HEALING HEARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $280,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing