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The Robert Hampton Tapp Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$171k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$915kYouth Development$45kScience & Tech$11kPhilanthropy$10kSocial Science$8kHealth$6kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND$20,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$20,000
ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY$14,992
MSGR MCCLANCY HIGH SCHOOL$12,000
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY$11,250
ROLLINS COLLEGE$11,000
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY$10,369
PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA$7,500
STATEN ISLAND ACADEMY BLACKBAUD TUITION MANAGEMENT$7,500
CANTERBURY SCHOOL$7,500
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$7,500
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON$7,250
TEMPLE NER TAMID - SHORESH PRESCHOOL$7,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$3,750
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $20k → 10%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 11%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $8k → 8%STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $11k → 7%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 14%BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $7k → 20%FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $30k → 15%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $9k → 12%CANTERBURY SCHOOL: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $8k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $8k → 13%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $9k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS TENNESSEE: $11k → 17%BROWN UNIVERESITY: $10k → 14%PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $18k → 10%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $8k → 14%FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $7k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $8k → 13%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $7k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $9k → 17%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%TEMPLE NER TAMID - SHORESH PRESCHOOL: $7k → 16%CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $8k → 10%HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND: $20k → 17%FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 9%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $12k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $7k → 10%HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND: $15k → 17%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $15k → 13%HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND: $10k → 17%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $11k → 13%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $15k → 13%SWEDISH INSTITUTE: $8k → 17%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%MSGR MCCLANCY HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 13%MSGR MCCLANCY HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 13%MSGR MCCLANCY HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 13%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

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
SC
OK
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$796k · 46 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
40

Total granted

$796k
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+6%

Still filing today

41%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +204%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +37%
  • CO
    Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • SH
    SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FU
    FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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.

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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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
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
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
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
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manhattanville University; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

31 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. 31 of the 93 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
26/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $60,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $45,000 · OtherHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INCSTONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $40,500 · OtherSTONY BROOK UNIVERSITYMSGR MCCLANCY HIGH SCHOOL: $36,000 · OtherMSGR MCCLANCY HIGH SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $26,000 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $19,500 · Other+59 more: $345,384 · Other+59 moreFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $45,000 · EducationChildren of Fallen Patriots FoundationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $34,492 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORKDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $23,000 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITYRochester Institute of Technology: $22,500 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $22,000 · EducationCANTERBURY SCHOOL INCSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $21,000 · EducationThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $20,500 · EducationFairfield University: $17,860 · EducationROLLINS COLLEGE: $17,000 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGE: $16,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITY: $14,250 · Education+12 more: $64,714 · Education+12 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · Health
Other$572,384Education$394,316Community Improvement$20,000Philanthropy$10,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $34,492 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $17,860 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $14,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew England College: $8,464 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNICHOLS COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New England College ↗

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 Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC13.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert Hampton Tapp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert Hampton Tapp Foundation. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Delaware State University: 18% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
  • Nichols College: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Robert Hampton Tapp Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 93 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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