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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.

  • CARLETON COLLEGE

    $2,500,000

    NORTHFIELD, MN

    Paglia Family Endowed Scholarship.

  • CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE

    $2,000,000

    WASHINGTON, DC

    the Carnegie Endowment's capital campaign

  • CARLETON COLLEGE

    $1,375,000

    NORTHFIELD, MN

    the Class of 1974 Student Health Center.

  • CARLETON COLLEGE

    $1,250,000

    NORTHFIELD, MN

    The Paglia Family Post-Bac Research Fellowship.

  • UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION

    $1,000,000

    LINCOLN, NE

    the International Quilt Museum Endowment Fund

  • 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.

  • READWORKS INC

    $500,000

    BROOKLYN, NY

    to support the strategic plan

  • 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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