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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$6,587
Median grant
5
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIPS AMERICA INC$40,000
RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY$7,423
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND- COLLEGE PARK$6,587
RAND CORPORATION$5,000
PENNSLYVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC: $51k → 16%SCHOLARSHIPS AMERICA INC: $83k → 11%EARTH RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $5k → 9%ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%PENNSLYVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE: $3k → 15%CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ECONOMICS: $5k → 22%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%HENRY GEORGE SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $4k → 10%RAND CORPORATION: $5k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%CENTER FOR A SUSTAINABLE TODAY: $4k → 8%COUNCIL OF GEORGIST ORGANIZATIONS: $5k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $4k → 14%RUTGETS STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $13k → 11%HENRY GEORGE INSTITUTE: $7k → 13%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC: $35k → 16%SCHOLARSHIPS AMERICA INC: $40k → 11%PENNSLYVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE: $3k → 15%CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ECONOMICS: $5k → 22%LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 14%AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY INC: $2k → 17%RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND- COLLEGE PARK: $7k → 11%SCHOLARSHIPS AMERICA INC: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$299k · 7 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$299k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+21%

Still filing today

43%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    SCHOLARSHIPS AMERICA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $148k
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    2× · 2023–2024 · $86k · revenue +16%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK
    4× · 2022–2025 · $29k

Funded once

  • RS
    RUTGETS STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • HG
    HENRY GEORGE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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5
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
10
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is American Journal of Economics and Sociology Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIPS AMERICA INC: $147,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS AMERICA INCUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $29,348 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARKRUTGETS STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherRUTGETS STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ECONOMICS: $10,000 · Other+9 more: $47,423 · Other+9 moreTrustees of Tufts College: $85,993 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationNew York University: $5,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $3,750 · EducationThe Rand Corporation: $10,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY INC: $2,000 · Social Science
Other$259,271Education$114,743Public Benefit$10,000Social Science$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 2y, 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Inc Dba Progress and Poverty Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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