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Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$633k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$4.7MHealth$1.5MRecreation & Sports$756kEducation$738kArts & Culture$532kFood & Nutrition$429kSocial Science$325kPhilanthropy$193kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $539k
  • $250k+1 grant · $633k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIGHT FOR CHILDREN$632,500
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$225,000
THE WASHINGTON BALLET$100,000
DON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$80,000
BREAD FOR THE CITY$69,350
WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES$65,000
THE BLACK FEATHER FOUNDATION$40,000
CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD$37,500
ATHLETES FOR HOPE$25,000
CITYDANCE$10,000
PASSION & COMPASSION INC$10,000
ALEPH INSTITUTE$10,000
TORA JUNIORS FOOTBALL CLUB$6,000
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE BLACK FEATHER FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%SULAM: $100k → 8%SULAM: $53k → 8%SULAM: $10k → 8%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $1.0M → 14%PEOPLE ANIMALS LOVE: $25k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $1.0M → 14%PEOPLE ANIMALS LOVE: $10k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $750k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $633k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $500k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $330k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.8M · 29 repeat orgs$733k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
38

Total granted

$8.8M
$693k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+40%

Still filing today

69%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $488k · revenue +43%
  • AF
    ATHLETES FOR HOPE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $445k · revenue +105% · 30% of their budget
  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $229k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • II
    Imadi Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue -4%
  • THE RESIDENCYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +95%
  • MT
    MARTHA'S TABLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +41%

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

04Your field

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.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Act for Alexandria

Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.

Community Improvement
3
Washington Commanders Foundation

The Washington Commanders Foundation is committed to building a more vibrant and enriched DMV community by investing in education, honoring public service, and broadening access to youth football programs. By harnessing the transformative…

Philanthropy
4
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates 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…

Health
5
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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6
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates 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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7
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
8
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
9
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
10
University of Maryland Dermatologists 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…

Health
11
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates 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…

Education
12
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Md Anderson Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity Arts CentersMilitary Veterans SupportFood Banks and PantriesEquine Therapy ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Jewish Community Organizati…Animal Rescue and ShelterLocal History MuseumsCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr15%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr18%71%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr15%5%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,951

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.

05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC — $4,232,500 · Human ServicesFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INCSulam Inc — $162,500 · Human Services+2 more — $75,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $752,200 · OtherCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FO…CATHOLIC CHARITIES — $410,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESDON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL — $348,750 · OtherDON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOO…PAIDEIA INSTITUTE — $125,000 · OtherGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+39 more — $956,355 · Other+39 moreATHLETES FOR HOPE — $445,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES — $245,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $488,350 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $100,000 · Health+3 more — $24,150 · HealthTHE WASHINGTON BALLET — $225,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RESIDENCY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDiplomacy Center Foundation — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTISTS AND ATHLETES ALLIANCE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSITAR ARTS CENTER — $27,000 · Arts & CulturePharoah Phamily Phoundation — $15,000 · Arts & CultureANNE'S PLACE INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $229,350 · Food & NutritionJK COMMUNITY FARM — $100,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionPassion and Compassion Inc — $20,000 · Food & NutritionPETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS — $300,000 · Social Science
Human Services$4,470,000Other$2,692,305Youth Development$701,000Health$612,500Arts & Culture$437,000Food & Nutrition$399,350Social Science$300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC — $4,232,500 over 6y, 60% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $488,350 over 3y, 19% of budgetATHLETES FOR HOPE — $445,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetPETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS — $300,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES — $245,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $229,350 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET — $225,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSulam Inc — $162,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJK COMMUNITY FARM — $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE CHRIS TUCKER FOUNDATION — $85,020 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOLLEGETRACKS INC — $80,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetImadi Inc — $61,250 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE RESIDENCY — $50,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Children Museum — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY — $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDiplomacy Center Foundation — $45,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTHE BLACK FEATHER FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPEOPLE ANIMALS LOVE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetTHE ARTISTS AND ATHLETES ALLIANCE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDC SCORES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER — $27,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPassion and Compassion Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetUSO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER — $16,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPharoah Phamily Phoundation — $15,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNE'S PLACE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $12,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMD Anderson Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY HEALTH CARE INC — $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON DC POLICE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Clark Charitable Foun…Clark-Winchcole Found…Dweck Philanthropies …Fight for Children IncBender Foundation IncDimick Foundation Joh…United Way of the Nat…Congressional Sports …The Scott and Patrice…T Rowe Price Program …
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC25.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Dweck Philanthropies Inc · Fight for Children Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · United Way of the National Capital Area · Congressional Sports for Charity · The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc

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 Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Aleph Institute Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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