· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL FOUNDATION FOR COMM HEALTH | $300,000 |
| POWERHOUSE MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST LEGAL | $25,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $15,000 |
| HUMAN COALITION | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMERCY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +73%
- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER4× · 2019–2023 · $328k · revenue +33%
Conservative Partnership Institute4× · 2018–2021 · $290k · revenue +548%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- BCBAYSIDE COVENANT CHURCH GRANITE BAY ROSEVILLE CAone grant, 2022 · $20k
- CAChild Advocates of El Dorado Countyone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
The Foundations Mission is to enhance our understanding of the Constitution and our constitutional history.
Our mission is to conduct and support research on issues and trends that affect the practice of public affairs and organizations' ability to thrive in a dynamic business environment. Our research provides actionable intelligence on…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
Dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the u.s. media.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 38 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.
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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: Servant Foundation · Dignity Health · Donors Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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