· Private foundation
The 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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $913k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SCHUYKILL RIVER PARK - CO GENERAL | $163,300 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA | $150,000 |
| LAS PATRONA | $100,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $100,000 |
| THE BLACK FAIRY GODMOTHER FOUNDATION CO SIMONE GORDON | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SCHUYKILL RIVER PARK - CO LAGE DOG PARK | $62,500 |
| FRIENDS OF SCHUYKILL RIVER PARK - CO SMALL DOG PARK | $62,500 |
| THE PENN FUND CO DANIEL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $10,000 |
| THE PENN FUND CO DIANE ROBERTS UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $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 (FY21–24, $521k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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
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 +40% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH3× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +47%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA3× · 2022–2024 · $350k · revenue +79%
- LPLAS PATRONAS3× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- SSALKone grant, 2020 · $200k
- TVTHE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIESone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -78%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $150k
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.
See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
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…
Healthcare, education, and research
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations (see schedule o)
Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds ROOTS OF RENEWAL NOLA ↗
- Who funds LAS PATRONAS ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Imagine Los Angeles Inc ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Roberts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roberts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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