· Private foundation
Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION KOL AMI | $16,022 |
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $6,200 |
| UTAH STANDS WITH ISRAEL | $5,000 |
| SALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION | $3,250 |
| UTAH OPERA SYMPHONY | $3,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $2,500 |
| I-CLUB FUND | $2,400 |
| CEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,500 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATER | $1,500 |
| THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $1,000 |
| ORCHESTRA IOWA | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLSALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +40%
- CRCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +1%
- TATHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWAone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -35%
- CKCONGREGATION KOL AMIone grant, 2018 · $5k
- UCUJA CRISIS RESPONSE UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RED CEDAR CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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