About Robinson Foundation
The Robinson Foundation concentrates its giving on pediatric medical care and emergency response, prioritizing hospital capital and equipment needs (often for trauma, transplant and outpatient clinic technology) and regional disaster relief in the Southeast. Grants are heavily weighted to large, mission-driven medical institutions and a small number of disaster-response and faith-based relief partners, with particular attention to Memphis/Greater Tennessee-area children’s hospitals and nearby communities. The foundation favors practical, tangible gifts (medical devices, trauma room buildouts, pharmacy equipment) and rapid-response funding for floods and other emergencies.
Focus Areas
Pediatric hospital capital and medical equipment (trauma rooms, stretchers, intubation systems)Support for pediatric oncology/hematology and bone marrow transplant outpatient careRegional disaster relief and emergency feeding (flood response in NC/TN)Faith-based local relief in Tennessee (Baptist disaster relief efforts)Children’s hospital program support in Memphis/Greater Tennessee (including Ronald McDonald House support)
Who They Fund
pediatric patients and their families
About Robinson Foundation
A $1,000,000 grant to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis anchors the Robinson Foundation’s recent giving and shows the scale of its support for pediatric medical care. Across the latest grants, the foundation repeatedly backs hospital capital purchases, equipment upgrades, and direct patient-support needs rather than broad, undirected philanthropy. Memphis institutions appear often, including St. Jude and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Foundation, alongside a smaller set of disaster-response and relief partners in the Southeast. The foundation’s medical gifts are practical and specific: imaging systems, trauma equipment, inpatient devices, outpatient clinic tools, and items tied to patient housing and family support. In the disaster-relief side of its work, it has funded flood, tornado, and other emergency responses through organizations serving affected communities in Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Ukraine-related relief. The result is a grantmaking pattern that combines large institutional gifts with rapid-response support for emergencies. Robinson Foundation also makes grants to faith-based relief groups and selected nonprofit partners working in animal welfare, youth services, and disability-related services. Its recent record suggests a preference for tangible project costs and operational support tied to named needs, hospitals, and local response efforts.
What Robinson Foundation Funds
Medical assistance is the clearest throughline in Robinson Foundation’s recent awards. It gave $400,000 to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Foundation for Trauma Room 2 and 3 equipment, including a STORZ intubation system, a Stryker trauma stretcher, and a Belmont rapid infuser. It also granted $125,000 to the same organization for a warming transport bed for neonates. Pediatric specialty care appears in several different forms. The foundation awarded $110,000 to Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation for the Chiari Malformation Research Center and detailed magnetic resonance imaging measures. It also supported rehabilitation at Shriners Hospitals for Children with a $100,000 grant for equipment including a cross trainer bike, hitting cage, and turf for cut drills. Outside medicine, the foundation funded disaster and family-support work through Mercy Chefs Inc for flood and tornado response, and it backed youth programming with a $130,000 grant to One Family Memphis for the “Free after Three” program and Community Closet restocking.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2.8M
Total Assets
$48.6M
Total Revenue
$3M
Total Expenses
$3.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $53K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$53K
Geographic Reach
Regional34 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in TN.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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