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Jane Bancroft Robinson Foundation Inc
Washington, DC · EIN 27-3818431. Reported 49 grants totalling $6,212,960 to 41 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Jane Bancroft Robinson Foundation Inc, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in health care -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE E111).
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 20% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $38,750. Half of what it reported fell between $17,334 and $125,000; the smallest was $7,300 and the largest $1,022,248. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East River Family Strengthening Collaborative | Washington, DC | $1,231,061 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Institute for Public Health Innovation | Washington, DC | $1,089,772 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital | Washington, DC | $869,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lucy Webb Haynes National Training School for Deaconesses and Mission | Washington, DC | $570,062 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bread for the City Inc | Washington, DC | $513,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Strategic Management Services LLC | Oxon Hill, MD | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Academy of Hope Foundation | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| District of Columbia Hospital Association | Washington, DC | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Breast Care for Washington | Washington, DC | $158,964 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Greater Washington Community Foundation | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Nonprofit Advancement | Washington, DC | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community of Hope Inc | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Academy of Hope Adult Public Charter School | Washington, DC | $64,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers | Washington, DC | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Project Transformation DC | Washington, DC | $48,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Living Classrooms Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $46,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington Inc | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Higher Achievement Program Inc | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Mary Elizabeth House Inc a Ministry | Washington, DC | $42,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New Futures | Washington, DC | $42,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fishing School Inc | Washington, DC | $38,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Traron Center | Washington, DC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Capital Area Asset Building Corporation | Washington, DC | $32,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bread for the City Inc | Washington, DC | $29,600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Anacostia Coordinating Council Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Calvary Womens Services Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health Alliance Network | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marthas Table | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Transitional Housing Corporation | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jones Memorial United Methodist Church | Washington, DC | $23,460 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rodia LLC | Washington, DC | $17,334 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| A Little More Support | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church | Washington, DC | $14,600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Living Classrooms Foundation | Washington, DC | $13,957 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lisa Fitzpatrick & Associates | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Randall Memorial UMC | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| District of Columbia Primary Care Association | Washington, DC | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nean Consulting LLC | Washington, DC | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nueva Vida Inc | Alexandria, VA | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Smith Farm Ltd | Washington, DC | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
7 of 41 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Community of Hope Inc
PROGRAM SUPPORT, COVID EMERGENCY - Living Classrooms
PROGAM SUPPORT, COVID EMERGENCY - The Mary Elizabeth House
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT, COVID EMERGENCY - Lisa Fitzpatrick & Associates
STRATEGIC DESIGN INITIATIVE IN WARDS 7 & 8
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 25 | $911,034 | $30,000 |
| 2021 | 8 | $1,793,205 | $67,500 |
| 2022 | 6 | $1,494,660 | $230,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $2,014,061 | $90,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $38,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Jane Bancroft Robinson Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 5255 Loughboro Rd Nw, Washington, DC, 20016.
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