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Robert & Paulette File Foundation

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.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,750
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$259k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Robert & Paulette File Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$5k50%
FY20234$6k0%
FY20226$8k0%
FY20216$6k17%
FY20207$9k43%
FY20198$9k13%
FY20188$9k50%
FY20176$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$14kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$9kInternational$6kCommunity Improvement$5kHealth$4kCrime & Legal$2kEducation$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
MD
TN
NC
DC
MS

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Arm in Arm Inc$12,30080%
Homefront Inc$10,50060%
Lwala Community Alliance$5,05060%
Last Mile Health$4,25050%
Pathways to Housing - Pa$3,57530%
Thread Inc$3,00030%
Embarc Inc$2,80030%
The Possibility Project Inc$2,75030%
Fonkoze USA Inc$2,33020%
Impact Global Health Alliance$2,20020%
Show all 17 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert & Paulette File Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArm in Arm Inc: $12,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHomefront Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLwala Community Alliance: $5,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLast Mile Health: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPathways to Housing - Pa: $3,575 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThread Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmbarc Inc: $2,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Possibility Project Inc: $2,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFonkoze USA Inc: $2,330 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetImpact Global Health Alliance: $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Legal Services Inc: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Clear Fund: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Near East Refugee Aid: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCooperation Jackson of Mississippi: $305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Jobs With Justice: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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 Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNJ16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Robert & Paulette File Foundation

How much does Robert & Paulette File Foundation give?
Robert & Paulette File Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $4,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Robert & Paulette File Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (26%), Human Services (23%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are Robert & Paulette File Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Arm in Arm Inc ($12k), Homefront Inc ($11k), Lwala Community Alliance ($5k).
Does Robert & Paulette File Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert & Paulette File Foundation 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 & Paulette File Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, AbbVie Foundation.
Where is Robert & Paulette File Foundation based?
Robert & Paulette File Foundation is based in DE.

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 17 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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