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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 FY2024still arriving
110
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$60MInternational$14MSocial Science$7.9MHealth$2.8MYouth Development$2.0MHuman Services$1.9MArts & Culture$1.4MPublic Benefit$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $765k
  • $50k–250k51 grants · $4.8M
  • $250k+17 grants · $13M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$170M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARLETON COLLEGE$2,500,000
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE$2,000,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$1,375,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$1,250,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$1,000,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$685,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$500,000
READWORKS INC$500,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$500,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$400,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$300,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$300,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$300,000
READWORKS INC$275,000
P E F ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$250,000
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 (FY20–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CHILDRENS VILLAGE INC: $50k → 9%SAFE HORIZON INC: $15k → 17%RHODEWAY FINANCIAL: $25k → 14%CHILDRENS VILLAGE INC: $50k → 9%SAFE HORIZON INC: $15k → 17%CHILDRENS VILLAGE INC: $50k → 9%SAFE HORIZON INC: $15k → 17%CHILDRENS VILLAGE INC: $50k → 9%CHILDRENS VILLAGE INC: $45k → 9%GREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE & RENEWAL INC: $15k → 9%GREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE & RENEWAL INC: $10k → 9%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $325k → 17%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $250k → 17%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $250k → 17%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $25k → 16%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $125k → 10%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $25k → 16%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $125k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $125k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $125k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $75k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $75k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $75k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $75k → 10%SALEM MISSION INC: $50k → 10%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%SALEM MISSION INC: $40k → 10%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

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IN
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GA

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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$78M · 73 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
25

Total granted

$78M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+16%

Still filing today

81%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $508k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25M · revenue +31%
  • CE
    CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +1%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • HU
    HARVARD UNIV GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES
    one grant, 2020 · $225k
  • SP
    ST PETERS LUTHERAN CHURCH OF MANHATTAN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • TF
    Trustees for Harvard University
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +14%

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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
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Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum. 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 backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Elementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsCancer Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …School District FoundationsLocal History MuseumsUnited Way AffiliatesSenior Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Ymca Youth DevelopmentMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%81%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/96
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,469

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.

04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 116 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/89
Grantees still filing
67/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CARLETON COLLEGE — $24,639,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGEPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $11,780,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $4,110,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONREADWORKSINC — $2,512,872 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $2,057,466 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,050,000 · Education+17 more — $3,763,700 · Education+17 moreHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL — $11,225,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE - HARVARD — $2,450,000 · OtherPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF H…YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $1,125,756 · OtherMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $850,000 · Other+44 more — $6,970,401 · Other+44 moreCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $10,625,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDO…HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $600,000 · International+4 more — $264,000 · InternationalCHAPPAQUA SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,510,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc — $250,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $328,000 · PhilanthropyThe Stamford Hospital — $928,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD — $560,000 · HealthFRAXA Research Foundation Inc — $380,000 · HealthABILIS INC — $150,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $150,000 · HealthCONCUSSION ALLIANCE — $100,000 · Health+7 more — $141,250 · HealthCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE — $875,000 · Human ServicesPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC — $800,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC — $245,000 · Human ServicesTHE SALEM MISSION INC — $90,000 · Human Services+5 more — $185,000 · Human ServicesVMTS EDUCATION INC — $525,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $315,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDIO ART QUILT ASSOC INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureThe Alliance for American Quilts Inc — $122,083 · Arts & CultureCASCADIANOW — $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHAM MUSEUM — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $77,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$50,913,038Other$22,621,157International$11,489,000Philanthropy$4,088,000Health$2,409,250Human Services$2,195,000Arts & Culture$1,329,583

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $24,639,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $11,780,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $10,625,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $4,110,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREADWORKSINC — $2,512,872 over 5y, 30% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $2,057,466 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,050,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,510,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $1,125,756 over 5y, 18% of budgetRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC — $995,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital — $928,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE — $875,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $850,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC — $800,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $800,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTENACITY INC — $750,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetDOANE UNIVERSITY — $650,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $625,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $600,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD — $560,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $550,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVMTS EDUCATION INC — $525,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC — $419,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRAXA Research Foundation Inc — $380,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $370,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC — $325,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $315,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $300,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC — $245,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $210,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION — $190,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSTUDIO ART QUILT ASSOC INC — $175,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetABILIS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC — $140,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetDonors Trust Inc — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alliance for American Quilts Inc — $122,083 over 4y, 26% of budgetTrustees for Harvard University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetID INSIGHT INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONCUSSION ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetTHE SALEM MISSION INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSalem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBRAC USA INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds READWORKSINC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAPPAQUA SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds RIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
  • Who funds COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
  • Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds VMTS EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
  • Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncThe Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundInstitution for Savin…Essex County Communit…Cummings Foundation G…Fairfield County's Co…Eastern Bank Foundati…American Tower Corpor…Van Otterloo Family F…Rogers Family Foundat…Nebraska Humanities C…
Boston Foundation IncMA22× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert and Ardis James 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Project Music Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Riverview School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Robert and Ardis James 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 116 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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