· Private foundation
Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of GILROY AND LILLIAN P ROBERTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $266k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA | $266,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (ATHLETICS) | $150,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS) | $150,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (SUMMER CAMP) | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $15,000 |
| FRANKLIN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| ABRAMSON SENIOR CARE | $5,000 |
| FEMALE HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $2,500 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH ZION BETH ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| TEMPLE HILLEL | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SMSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA2× · 2021–2022 · $90k · revenue +33%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +52%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- HAHARRITON ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue -20%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2021 · $15k
- GMGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATIONSURFSIDE BUILDING COLLAPSE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2021 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARRITON ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Lower Merion Township Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE HILLEL ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY ↗
- Who funds KAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Snider Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Fund #2 · Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation · The Alan and Jill Miller Foundation · Rittenhouse Foundation · The Nerney Family Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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