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Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2026still arriving
32
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$1.6MRecreation & Sports$954kArts & Culture$140kHuman Services$96kReligion$96kPhilanthropy$84kHealth$64kInternational$51kOther$0
02FY2026 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k26 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $566k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA$166,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (ATHLETICS)$150,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS)$150,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (SUMMER CAMP)$100,000
FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL$30,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$20,000
FEMALE HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY$5,000
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE$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
TEMPLE HILLEL$1,500
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY$1,500
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $1k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $1k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $300 → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 57 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2026, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
23

Total granted

$3.8M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SM
    SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $90k · revenue +33%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +190%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • HA
    HARRITON ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue -20%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • GO
    GIFT OF LIFE DONOR PROGRAM
    one grant, 2025 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
6
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
7
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Volunteer Medical Serv Corps of Lm & Nar. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
40/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA: $932,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIATEMPLE UNIVERSITY (ATHLETICS): $900,000 · OtherTEMPLE UNIVERSITY (ATHLETICS)TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS): $900,000 · OtherTEMPLE UNIVERSITY (FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS)TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (SUMMER CAMP): $300,000 · OtherTEMPLE UNIVERSITY (SUMMER CAMP)+50 more: $200,250 · Other+50 moreSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHARRITON ASSOCIATION: $26,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $17,100 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $150,500 · Education+4 more: $14,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $75,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,300 · Human ServicesTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $4,000 · Health+7 more: $5,500 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 · International+1 more: $750 · International
Other$3,232,250Arts & Culture$169,100Education$164,500Philanthropy$86,500Human Services$72,300Health$69,500International$50,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARRITON ASSOCIATION: $26,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $13,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE HILLEL: $6,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLower Merion Township Scholarship Fund: $5,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY THEATER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $3,600 over 3y, 11% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $3,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $2,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHINGHAM POLICE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER MEDICAL SERV CORPS OF LM & NAR: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER MERION TOWNSHIP POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 2398 HINGHAM MA: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HARRITON ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEMPLE HILLEL ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Lower Merion Township Scholarship Fund ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds KAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗

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.

The Snider FoundationErlbaum Family Founda…The Neubauer Family F…The William Penn Foun…Louis and Bessie Stei…Susanna Lachs and Dea…The Alan and Jill Mil…Rittenhouse FoundationThe Nerney Family Fou…Sarah Scaife Foundati…The Saramar Charitabl…The Cedarcrest Charit…
The Snider FoundationPA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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