Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $632,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 38
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $39M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $439k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $1.3M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $2.0M | 54% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $1.6M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $1.5M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fight for Children Inc | $4,232,500 | 6 | 60% |
| Children's National | $488,350 | 3 | 19% |
| Athletes for Hope | $445,000 | 6 | 30% |
| Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Washington Nationals Philanthropies | $245,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $229,350 | 4 | 0% |
| The Washington Ballet | $225,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Sulam Inc | $162,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Lupus Research Alliance Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jk Community Farm | $100,000 | 2 | 14% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust
- How much does Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust give?
- Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $1,315,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (49%), Health (15%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
- Who are Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Fight for Children Inc ($4.2M), Children's National ($488k), Athletes for Hope ($445k).
- Does Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust 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 Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation.
- Where is Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust based?
- Joseph E Robert Jr Charitable Trust is based in DC.
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