Stephen K. Robert co-founded the Source of Hope Foundation with his wife, Pilar Crespi Robert, in 2009. Previously, Stephen Robert served as a director of the International Board of the U.S./Middle East Project and is a member of the Foreign Program Leadership Committee at the Brookings Institution. Source of Hope Foundation is a charitable foundation that helps people in urgent need of education and healthcare.

The foundation has charitable activities in Haiti, Palestine, Columbia, and New York. Source of Hope Foundation has funded healthcare initiatives across the world. For instance, the foundation supports the Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation, which provides early healthcare to children and mothers. The foundation has committed to reducing infant mortality rates in Colombia.

Similarly, the foundation financially supports patients at St. John Eye Hospital in East Jerusalem. At St. John's Eye Hospital, patients with eye defects are given proper care regardless of their financial status, religion, and ethnicity.