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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 46-2331849

Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation

A private foundation in Wilmington, DE. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 27 grants and $422,000 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $422,000

    Grants listed
    27
    Assets, end of year
    $2,214,922

  • Tax year 2024

    $539,000

    Grants listed
    29
    Assets, end of year
    $2,556,684

  • Tax year 2023

    $927,000

    Grants listed
    38
    Assets, end of year
    $3,002,448

  • Tax year 2022

    $1,205,000

    Grants listed
    46
    Assets, end of year
    $3,825,988

  • Tax year 2021

    $2,190,000

    Grants listed
    51
    Assets, end of year
    $5,038,309

  • Tax year 2020

    $1,941,248

    Grants listed
    59
    Assets, end of year
    $4,964,386

  • Tax year 2019

    $946,252

    Grants listed
    63
    Assets, end of year
    $5,913,059

  • Tax year 2018

    $991,000

    Grants listed
    66
    Assets, end of year
    $3,491,433

Grants paid in 2025

27 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. New York UniversityNew York, NY

    Thompson Bartlett Summer Research Fellowships AT NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

    $60,000
  2. University of ChicagoChicago, IL

    James Bartlett Fellowship Program - Harris School

    $40,000
  3. Individual

    Scholarship Grant

    $13,000
  4. Individual

    Scholarship Grant

    $13,000
  5. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  6. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  7. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  8. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  9. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  10. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  11. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  12. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  13. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  14. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  15. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  16. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  17. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  18. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  19. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  20. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  21. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  22. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  23. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  24. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  25. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  26. Individual

    Scholarship grant

    $13,000
  27. Princeton UniversityPrinceton, NJ

    Dede T. Bartlett P03 Fund for Student Research in ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

    $10,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education3 grants $110,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York1 grant $60,000
  2. Illinois1 grant $40,000
  3. New Jersey1 grant $10,000

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Dede BartlettCo- Pres, Dir Hours 1Pay $0
  • James W BartlettDir, Sec, Treas, Co- Pres Hours 5Pay $0

The return

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