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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.

$508k
Granted FY2024still arriving
115
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$632kArts & Culture$465kEnvironment$184kRecreation & Sports$55kYouth Development$49kFood & Nutrition$23kCommunity Improvement$21kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 115 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k110 grants · $423k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVE DE GRACE MARITIME MUSEUM$25,000
PHILADELPHIA SCULPTORS$20,000
GREEN STREET RESCUE$15,000
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR EVIRONMENTAL R$15,000
FRIENDS OF ORKNEY PARK$10,000
OCTORARO WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$9,000
DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE$8,500
PHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER$8,000
CITY WILDLIFE$8,000
PHILLY GOAT PROJECT INC$8,000
OUR MOON RAPTOR CENTER$7,000
EARTH CELEBRATIONS INC$6,000
HAPPY COMPROMISE FARM SANCTAURY$6,000
WESTSIDE ANIMAL RESCUE$6,000
TOWN CATS INC$6,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW ERA CREATIVE SPACE: $2k → 9%NEW ERA CREATIVE SPACE: $2k → 9%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

VT
NY
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
TX
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 77 repeat orgs$549k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
81

Total granted

$1.1M
$314k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+18%

Still filing today

74%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth 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

  • HD
    HAVRE DE GRACE MARITIME MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • PS
    PHILADELPHIA SCULPTORS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +244% · 47% of their budget
  • GS
    GREEN STREET RESCUE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • PW
    PHOENIX WILDLIFE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +33%
  • PE
    PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONENTAL R
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • T
    TE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Familiar Hearts Animal Society

we are an animal rescue taking in homeless pets in northwestern philadelphia, providing them with medical care, food, shelter and new forever homes.

Animals
2
Radnor Outreach & Animal Rescue

Provide animal rescue with humane education and outreach.

Animals
3
Out of the Woods Rescue Inc

Out of the woods rescue is a no-kill organization whose mission is to rehome neglected and abandoned animales, especially those with illness.

Animals
4
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
5
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
6
Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

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7
River Road Rescue Sanctuary Inc
Animals
8
Centre Wildlife Care

Licensed organization dedicated to caring for injured, orphaned, sick and displaced wildlife for the purpose of releasing them back into the wild.

Animals
9
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
10
Safe House Animal Rescue and Sanctuary Inc

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.

Animals
11
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

—
12
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forgotten Cats Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/114
Grantees still filing
71/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF ORKNEY PARK INC: $40,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ORKNEY PARK INCIndividual grant recipient: $26,500 · OtherDA VINCI ART ALLIANCE: $25,500 · OtherPUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIR RESP: $22,000 · Other+92 more: $489,150 · Other+92 moreGREEN STREET RESCUE: $55,000 · AnimalsGREEN STREET RESCUETOWN CATS INC: $23,000 · AnimalsOWL MOON RAPTOR CENTER INC: $21,500 · AnimalsANDY'S FRIENDS INC: $21,000 · AnimalsFORGOTTEN CATS INC: $21,000 · AnimalsPhilly Goat Project Inc: $21,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $20,000 · AnimalsPHOENIX WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $17,500 · AnimalsANGELS JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL RESCUE: $17,500 · AnimalsMYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE: $16,000 · Animals+36 more: $206,600 · Animals+36 moreHAVRE DE GRACE MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHAVRE DE GRACE MARITIME MUS…PHILADELPHIA SCULPTORS INC: $55,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA SCULPTORS INCTIGER STRIKES ASTEROID INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBRONXARTSPACE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCraftNow Philadelphia: $14,500 · Arts & CulturePHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $14,000 · Arts & Culture+28 more: $155,000 · Arts & Culture+28 moreNEIGHBORHOOD GARDENS TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentBUCKS COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY: $14,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentFriends of Crease Street Garden: $10,000 · EnvironmentOCTORARO WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · EnvironmentPENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentTHREE RIVERS WATERKEEPER: $5,000 · EnvironmentFRISKY'S WILDLIFE AND PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentPASSAIC RIVER COALITION INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentASSATEAGUE COASTAL TRUST INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentHome Earth Alliance Inc: $4,500 · EnvironmentBUFFALO NIAGARA RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $4,000 · Environment+2 more: $5,800 · EnvironmentCity Wildlife Inc: $30,500 · EducationCHESAPEAKE NATIVES INC: $9,500 · EducationCENTER FOR METAL ARTS INC: $8,500 · EducationDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $10,500 · Community ImprovementNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT: $5,000 · Community ImprovementDELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,500 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY CORPS: $2,000 · Community ImprovementARTISTIC NOISE INC: $6,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$603,150Animals$440,100Arts & Culture$387,500Environment$106,800Education$48,500Community Improvement$25,000Crime & Legal$6,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAVRE DE GRACE MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetPHILADELPHIA SCULPTORS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetGREEN STREET RESCUE: $55,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetCity Wildlife Inc: $30,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDA VINCI ART ALLIANCE: $25,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTOWN CATS INC: $23,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetOWL MOON RAPTOR CENTER INC: $21,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetANDY'S FRIENDS INC: $21,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetFORGOTTEN CATS INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPhilly Goat Project Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD GARDENS TRUST: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetTIGER STRIKES ASTEROID INC: $20,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetPHOENIX WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $17,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetANGELS JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL RESCUE: $17,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetEARTH CELEBRATIONSINC: $17,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetMYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE: $16,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBRONXARTSPACE: $15,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCraftNow Philadelphia: $14,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $14,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $14,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY: $14,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFEBRUARY STAR SANCTUARY INC: $13,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS INC: $12,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRAIR INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRAVENSBEARD WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetFriends of Crease Street Garden: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetOMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCAMDEN FIREWORKS INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFive Myles Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMore Art Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRESCUE RIDES CELTIC HILL FARM: $10,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetWOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE REFUGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOpen Source Gallery Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetORTEGA Y GASSET PROJECTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBeacon Theatre Productions: $10,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTWELVE GATES ARTS: $9,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE NATIVES INC: $9,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSAMS HOPE: $9,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetOCTORARO WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNOTHING BUT LOVE CANINE FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCENTER FOR METAL ARTS INC: $8,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFREEDOM HILL HORSE RESCUE: $8,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWEST SHORE WILDLIFE CENTER: $8,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSafe Haven Equine Warriors Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 3.2% 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 HAVRE DE GRACE MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA SCULPTORS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN STREET RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds City Wildlife Inc ↗
  • Who funds DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds TOWN CATS INC ↗
  • Who funds OWL MOON RAPTOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDY'S FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN CATS INC ↗
  • Who funds Philly Goat Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD GARDENS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID INC ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds EARTH CELEBRATIONSINC ↗
  • Who funds MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds BRONXARTSPACE ↗
  • Who funds CraftNow Philadelphia ↗
  • Who funds PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC ↗
  • Who funds FEBRUARY STAR SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds RAIR INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds RAVENSBEARD WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗

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 Philadelphia Cult…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Penn Treaty Special S…Henrietta Tower Wurts…The Andy Warhol Found…Schumann Robert F Fdn…Pennsylvania Humaniti…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…1992 Tipgoomoogus Mem…Michael J and Patrici…
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund IncPA35.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Joseph Robert Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph Robert Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
29report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Joseph Robert Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Joseph Robert Foundation Inc 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 226 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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