Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $655k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2026
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $166,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 62
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 3
- Total assets, FY2026
- $9.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 7% of the organizations Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 30 | $651k | 20% |
| FY2025 | 29 | $748k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $731k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $627k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $545k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $526k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends Select School | $150,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Settlement Music School of Philadelphia | $90,000 | 2 | 1% |
| United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Franklin Institute | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Harriton Association | $26,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation give?
- Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $654,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 62 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (52%), Recreation & Sports (30%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Friends Select School ($151k), Settlement Music School of Philadelphia ($90k), United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey ($75k).
- Does Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Snider Foundation, Erlbaum Family Foundation, The Neubauer Family Foundation.
- Where is Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation based?
- Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation is based in PA.
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