· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $765k
- $50k–250k51 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+17 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| CARLETON COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| READWORKS INC | $275,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $508k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $25M · revenue +31%
- CECARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +1%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- HUHARVARD UNIV GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCESone grant, 2020 · $225k
- SPST PETERS LUTHERAN CHURCH OF MANHATTAN INCone grant, 2023 · $200k
- TFTrustees for Harvard Universityone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
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 and Research
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
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.…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
How this is measured
89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds READWORKSINC ↗
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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