· Private foundation
The Aileen K and Brian L Roberts 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.
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 $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $408k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $692k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM | $1,000,000 |
| OPEN SQUASH | $166,667 |
| TUITION SUPPORT FUND INC | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| FOR PETE'S SAKE | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $75,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $50,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA | $50,000 |
| WENDY NOVAK DIABETES INSTITUTE | $40,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $25,000 |
| SPIN | $25,000 |
| FIRST TEE GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $25,000 |
| CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $25,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $392k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
38 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 17 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA4× · 2021–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +45%
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +14%
- MUMACCABI USA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $627k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- SDSCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2020 · $5.0M
- TCTHE CALDER MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -36%
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.
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…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 122 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN SQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds TUITION SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Robert H & Janet S Fleisher Foundation · The Honickman Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Cigna Group Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Aileen K and Brian L Roberts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aileen K and Brian L Roberts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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