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Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$62k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
57%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,587
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$23M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2025still arriving5$62k20%
FY20247$174k57%
FY20237$84k86%
FY20223$15k100%
FY20211$5k0%
FY20202$9k100%
FY20193$14k67%
FY20182$12k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$324kSocial Science$22kEnvironment$19kArts & Culture$16kCommunity Improvement$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Tufts College$85,99320%
The Rand Corporation$10,00020%
Center for the Study of Economics$10,00027%
Rutgers the State University$7,4231n/a
Chapman University$5,00010%
New York University$5,00010%
Loyola Marymount University$5,00010%
Robert Morris University$5,00010%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$5,00010%
California State University Dominguez Hills Toro Auxiliary Partners$5,00010%
University of Chicago$3,75010%
The Center for a Sustainable Today$3,5001n/a
American Journal of Economics and Sociology Inc$2,00013%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($228k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $85,993 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for the Study of Economics: $10,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetChapman University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola Marymount University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRobert Morris University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University Dominguez Hills Toro Auxiliary Partners: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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 11.

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About Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute

How much does Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute give?
Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute reported 5 grants totaling $62,010 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (84%), Social Science (6%), Environment (5%).
Who are Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Tufts College ($86k), The Rand Corporation ($10k), Center for the Study of Economics ($10k).
Does Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute 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.
Where is Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute based?
Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute is based in NJ.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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