Delaware · Private foundation
Robert and Ardis James 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.
- $18M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 110
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $170M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $494k 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 | 68 | $17M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $15M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $14M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $16M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $17M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carleton College | $24,639,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | $10,625,000 | 5 | 4% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $4,110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Readworksinc | $2,512,872 | 5 | 30% |
| University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc | $2,050,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Chappaqua School Foundation Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Yankee Institute for Public Policy | $1,125,756 | 5 | 18% |
| Riverview School Inc | $995,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Stamford Hospital | $928,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cooke School and Institute | $875,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Van Otterloo Family Foundation · Rogers Family Foundation · Nebraska Humanities Council
How this is measured
Compare Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc
- How much does Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc give?
- Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc reported 110 grants totaling $18,194,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (63%), International (14%), Social Science (8%).
- Who are Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Carleton College ($25M), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ($11M), University of Nebraska Foundation ($4.1M).
- Does Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc 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 Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc based?
- Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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