California · Private foundation
The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation
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.
- $725k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $565k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $625k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $326k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $405k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $510k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $399k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $592k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $531k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $448k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Foundation | $1,008,160 | 9 | 3% |
| Powerhouse Ministries Inc | $405,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Media Research Center | $328,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $290,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $260,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Human Coalition | $240,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $220,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $190,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Los Rios Colleges Foundation | $152,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Los Rios Community College District | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($502k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation
- How much does The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation give?
- The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $725,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (31%), Health (27%), Religion (10%).
- Who are The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mercy Foundation ($1.0M), Powerhouse Ministries Inc ($405k), Media Research Center ($328k).
- Does The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robert S & Star Pepper 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 The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Dignity Health, Donors Trust Inc.
- Where is The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation based?
- The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation is based in CA.
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