· Private foundation
Robert and Joan Rothberg Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Summit Jewish Community Center | $26,250 |
| Jewish Family Service Metrowest NJ | $26,000 |
| Jewish Federation Of Greate Metrowest NJ | $25,018 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Reeves-Reed Arboretum | $10,000 |
| Jespy House | $10,000 |
| American Jewish Committee | $6,700 |
| The Connection | $6,000 |
| Congregation Brothers Of Israel | $5,000 |
| American Civil Liberties | $5,000 |
| Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad | $5,000 |
| Anti-Defamation League | $5,000 |
| Overlook Foundation | $5,000 |
| Can Do Multiple Sclerosis Charity | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
71 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VCVASSAR COLLEGE4× · 2019–2022 · $169k · revenue +23%
- JHJESPY HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +159%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $25k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MIMYERS-JDC-BROOKDALE INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVI UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TJTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MANITOBAone grant, 2020 · $19k
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.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 120 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.
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds JESPY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds Fishermans Mark ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The US Charitable Gift Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert and Joan Rothberg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Joan Rothberg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: 8% of income from government
- The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service of Metrowest Inc: 4% of income from government
- Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
- Reeves - Reed Arboretum: 1% of income from government
- Drew University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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