· Private foundation
Joseph Robert Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k110 grants · $423k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVE DE GRACE MARITIME MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA SCULPTORS | $20,000 |
| PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR EVIRONMENTAL R | $15,000 |
| GREEN STREET RESCUE | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ORKNEY PARK | $10,000 |
| OCTORARO WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $9,000 |
| DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE | $8,500 |
| PHILLY GOAT PROJECT INC | $8,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER | $8,000 |
| CITY WILDLIFE | $8,000 |
| OUR MOON RAPTOR CENTER | $7,000 |
| RAIA INC | $6,000 |
| EARTH CELEBRATIONS INC | $6,000 |
| HARLES N GORDON WILDLIFE REHAB CENT | $6,000 |
| TOWN CATS INC | $6,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 68 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k 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
- HDHAVRE DE GRACE MARITIME MUSEUM INC4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +12%
- GSGREEN STREET RESCUE4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +110%
- PSPHILADELPHIA SCULPTORS INC3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +244% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- PWPHOENIX WILDLIFE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +33%
- TTEone grant, 2020 · $15k
- PEPUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONENTAL Rone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
we are an animal rescue taking in homeless pets in northwestern philadelphia, providing them with medical care, food, shelter and new forever homes.
Provide animal rescue with humane education and outreach.
Out of the woods rescue is a no-kill organization whose mission is to rehome neglected and abandoned animales, especially those with illness.
Animal Rescue
A sanctuary for unfortunate animals
Licensed organization dedicated to caring for injured, orphaned, sick and displaced wildlife for the purpose of releasing them back into the wild.
To advocate for animals by providing fulfillment of their physical, mental, and emotional needs and to provide public education to improve their quality of care throughout all life stages.
Animal Welfare
Animal rescue and housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forgotten Cats Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rescue Rides Celtic Hill Farm. 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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 226 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds GREEN STREET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA SCULPTORS INC ↗
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- Who funds DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TOWN CATS INC ↗
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- Who funds FORGOTTEN CATS INC ↗
- Who funds ANDY'S FRIENDS INC ↗
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- Who funds ANGELS JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds EARTH CELEBRATIONSINC ↗
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- Who funds PHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FEBRUARY STAR SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
- Who funds RAIR INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE RIDES CELTIC HILL FARM ↗
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 Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Penn Treaty Special Service District · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main · Pennsylvania Humanities Council · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · 1992 Tipgoomoogus Memorial Trust · Michael J and Patricia Levitt Family Charitable Foundation 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 Robert Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mispillion Art League Inc — 15% of income from government
- Susquehannock Wildlife Society Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Morris Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Forgotten Cats Inc — 4% of income from government
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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