Private foundation · EIN 13-7068398 · New York, NY · Return for the year ending 2024-11-30

Where Robertson Foundation's grants went

It reported $105M in grants paid across 256 lines. WHOFUNDS matched 78.3% of those dollars to 172 recipient organizations.

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What its filing says about applications

Preselected only It checked the 990-PF box saying it only gives to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Contact names and phone numbers are on the filing itself. WHOFUNDS doesn't republish them.

Grants paid 246 published lines

RecipientPaidPurpose as filedMatch
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Redwood City, CA · EIN 94-1156365
$21,000,000ARTWORKS DONATED - WAG ID: 405307 - DIEBENKORN, RICHARD (OCEAN PARK NO. 9, 1968)Known alias 1.00
Success Academy Charter Schools
New York, NY · no confident EIN match
$10,000,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTUnmatched Help match
The Robertson Scholars Leadership Program
New York, NY · EIN 20-2479103
$9,660,077GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT AND SCHOLARSHIPSExact name 1.00
Environmental Defense Fund
New York, NY · EIN 11-6107128
$7,000,000DECARBONIZING THE TRUCKING SECTOR, REDUCING METHANE & CLIMATE IN CHINASame address 1.00
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY · EIN 13-1624158
$5,000,000THERAPEUTIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDSame address 1.00
New York STEM Cell Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 20-2905531
$4,925,022EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARDS PROGRAM & CONFERENCESame address 1.00
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
New York, NY · EIN 13-3615533
$4,875,000STOP EXPANSION OF OIL AND GAS AND ALTERNATE PATHWAYS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTSame city 1.00
New York STEM Cell Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 20-2905531
$3,837,850NEUROSCIENCE INVESTIGATOR AWARDSSame address 1.00
Foundation for International Law for the Environment (File)
Amsterdam, NL · outside the US
$3,000,000CURTAIL FOSSIL FUEL SUPPLY & DEMANDForeign
Cancer Research Institute
New York, NY · EIN 13-1837442
$2,625,000SUPPORT FOR THE LLOUD J. OLD STAR PROGRAMSame address 1.00
Windward Fund
Washington, DC · EIN 47-3522162
$2,500,000COORDINATE AND FUND PLANT-BASED AND ALTERNATIVE PROTEINSSame address 1.00
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY · EIN 13-1924236
$2,400,000JOSIE ROBERTSON INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMSame street 1.00
Harlem Children's Zone
New York, NY · EIN 23-7112974
$1,500,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame address 1.00
Transforma
Bogota, CO · outside the US
$1,500,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTForeign
Philanthropy New York
New York, NY · EIN 13-3001403
$1,250,000EDUCATION PHILANTHROPIC ECOSYSTEM INITIATIVE LED BY SYDNEY MORRISSame address 1.00
Americans for Oxford
New York, NY · EIN 52-1495060
$1,124,731OXFORD BIG DATA INSTITUTESame address 1.00
Refed
Chicago, IL · EIN 83-1579781
$1,075,000PHILANTHROPIC ROAD MAPExact name 1.00
Capital for Good USA
Washington, DC · EIN 27-0915757
$1,000,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTExact name 1.00
Earthjustice
San Francisco, CA · EIN 94-1730465
$1,000,000SUPPORT FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND FARMING PROGRAMSame city 1.00
The Nature Conservancy
Arlington, VA · EIN 53-0242652
$1,000,000LIVING CARBON PROTECTION PROGRAMSame ZIP 1.00
Global Greengrants Fund
Boulder, CO · EIN 84-1612422
$750,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame city 1.00
The Wilderness Society
Washington, DC · EIN 53-0167933
$750,000CLIMATE SOLUTIONS STRATEGY PILLARSame city 1.00
World Resources Institute
Washington, DC · EIN 52-1257057
$750,000SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF PHILANTHROPIC ROADMAP ON FOOD LOSS AND WASTESame address 1.00
Movilizatorio
Bogota, CO · outside the US
$750,000PROMOTE A JUST TRANSITION TO A CLEANER ECONOMY IN LATIN AMERICAForeign
The Meliore Foundation
Brussels, BE · outside the US
$750,000SUPPORT STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS AT NEXUS CLIMATE & FOODForeign
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY · EIN 13-1624158
$700,000JULIAN AND JOSIE ROBERTSON FUND TO RECRUIT YOUNG INVESTIGATORSSame address 1.00
Americans for Oxford
New York, NY · EIN 52-1495060
$640,000WILDCRU - CONSERVATION OF KEY WILDCAT SPECIESSame address 1.00
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
New York, NY · EIN 90-0634376
$500,000SUPPORT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS - PLANT BASED FOODS & REDUCE FOOD LOSSSame address 1.00
The Fund for Public Schools
New York, NY · EIN 11-2656137
$500,000SUPPORT FOR NYC READSSame address 1.00
Plant Based Foods Institute
San Francisco, CA · EIN 82-1382938
$500,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame address 1.00
The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia
Alexandria, VA · EIN 54-0506326
$500,000CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A MEMORIAL GARDEN IN HONOR OF [name withheld]Same address 0.75
Transcend
Hastings Hdsn, NY · EIN 30-0878820
$500,000ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EMERGING AND EXISTING INITIATIVES TO REIMAGINE THE TEACHER ROLESame address 1.00
Leading Education
New Orleans, LA · no confident EIN match
$400,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTUnmatched Help match
Classical Charter Schools
Bronx, NY · EIN 46-0625647
$375,000SUPPORT SYSTEMS CODIFICATION IN SERVICE OF CONTINUED IMPROVEMENTSame address 1.00
Movement Strategy Center
Oakland, CA · EIN 20-1037643
$334,000HEAL FOOD ALLIANCESame street 1.00
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY · EIN 13-5598093
$325,000SUPPORT FOR THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC RESEARCH AND LEADERSHIPKnown alias 1.00
Americans for Oxford
New York, NY · EIN 52-1495060
$320,000RHODES HOUSE NAMING OPPORTUNITY OF JOHN HOODSame address 1.00
Kent School
Kent, CT · EIN 06-0646687
$300,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame address 1.00
City Squash
Bronx, NY · EIN 42-1535583
$270,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame address 1.00
Associacao Arayara de Educacao E Cultura
Curitiba, BR · outside the US
$250,000USE LITIGATION & ADVOCACY TO MINIMIZE FOSSIL FUES EXPANSIONForeign
Hollins University Corporation
Roanoke, VA · EIN 54-0506314
$172,625GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame city 1.00
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY · EIN 13-1924236
$115,500GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame street 1.00
Education Resource Strategies
Watertown, MA · EIN 20-1978102
$100,000COALITION TO REIMAGINE THE TEACHER ROLESame address 1.00
The Nature Conservancy
Arlington, VA · EIN 53-0242652
$88,125GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame ZIP 1.00
Brunswick School
Greenwich, CT · EIN 06-0646562
$87,500GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame address 1.00
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC · EIN 56-6001393
$87,375GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame ZIP 1.00
The Boys' Club of New York
New York, NY · EIN 13-5591750
$86,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame city 1.00
The Gift Trust
Wellington, NZ · outside the US
$80,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTForeign
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust
Miami, FL · EIN 65-0988321
$75,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame address 1.00
Portland Community Squash
Portland, ME · EIN 46-2787590
$65,000GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTSame address 1.00

10 more lines ($5.69M) aren't listed because the payee name as filed could identify a private person.

Foundations that fund the same organizations

  1. Amazonsmile Foundation Seattle, WA
    123 recipients in common
  2. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Charlotte, NC
    60 recipients in common
  3. Jpmorgan Chase Foundation New York, NY
    46 recipients in common
  4. The Pfizer Foundation New York, NY
    46 recipients in common
  5. American Express Foundation New York, NY
    23 recipients in common
  6. The Rockefeller Foundation New York, NY
    22 recipients in common
  7. Chubb Charitable Foundation Philadelphia, PA
    22 recipients in common
  8. The Ford Foundation New York, NY
    21 recipients in common

Where this comes from

Grant lines are from Part XV of this foundation's Form 990-PF (XML). The filing names each payee but gives no tax ID, so WHOFUNDS matched payees to the IRS Business Master File. Lines it couldn't match confidently are listed as filed. Method and limits.