Form 990-PF for tax year 2024
Filed by ROBERT AND ARDIS JAMES FOUNDATION INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $32,809,719
- Total expenses
- $22,292,572
- Contributions and grants received
- $18,404,071
- Contributions, gifts and grants paid
- $18,194,400
- Fair market value of assets, end of year
- $223,189,182
Listed in Part VIII
-
Ralph James
Dir, Sec, Treas
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Robert James
Dir, Pres*
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Catherine James Paglia
Dir, Pres
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants paid on this return
- Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))
- $18,194,400
- As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.
- Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)
- $18,194,400
- The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.
These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.
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CARLETON COLLEGE
$2,500,000
NORTHFIELD, MN
Paglia Family Endowed Scholarship.
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CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
$2,000,000
WASHINGTON, DC
the Carnegie Endowment's capital campaign
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CARLETON COLLEGE
$1,375,000
NORTHFIELD, MN
the Class of 1974 Student Health Center.
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CARLETON COLLEGE
$1,250,000
NORTHFIELD, MN
The Paglia Family Post-Bac Research Fellowship.
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
$1,000,000
LINCOLN, NE
the International Quilt Museum Endowment Fund
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CARLETON COLLEGE
$685,000
NORTHFIELD, MN
General & Unrestricted
-
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
$500,000
BOSTON, MA
GENERAL & UNRESTRICTED
-
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
$500,000
BOSTON, MA
support of Religion and Public Life, to be added to the Public Life Program Fund.
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READWORKS INC
$500,000
BROOKLYN, NY
to support the strategic plan
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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
$400,000
BRIDGEPORT, CT
TMC Capital Campaign
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Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_pf
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 17 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202533219349107213
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