· Private foundation
Bernard & Shirley Lapides Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of BERNARD & SHIRLEY LAPIDES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FEDERATION OF THE ARTS | $19,000 |
| REAL GOOD DOG RESUCE | $15,680 |
| WOMAN'S EXCHANGE OF MEMPHIS | $10,000 |
| EMMETT TILL MEMORIAL COMMISSION | $5,000 |
| MIFA | $3,800 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $3,380 |
| COMMUNITY FDN OF NW MISSISSIPPI INC | $1,500 |
| MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB | $1,000 |
| CHABAD AT UNIV OF WISCONSIN INC | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS COFFEEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| MOST VALUABLE KIDS ATLANTA | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 31%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RGREAL GOOD DOG RESCUE7× · 2018–2024 · $84k · revenue +1%
- TATHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +58%
- HSHumane Society of Memphis & Shelby County2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +285%
Funded once
SMILE TRAIN INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +19%- WWE2GETHERone grant, 2021 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
The museum of fine arts houses and preserves preeminent collections and aspires to serve a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art in order to encourage inquiry and to heighten public understanding and…
The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…
Our mission is to engage, educate and excite the community by collecting, exhibiting, and preserving works of art for the enjoyment of all. the museum of fine arts, st. petersburg, florida (mfa) is the cultural leader of our community. our…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Museum of Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mifa Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WOMAN'S EXCHANGE OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARTPLACE MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds Mississipp Folk Art Foundation ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds DELTAARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds SPRING INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB) ↗
- Who funds ARTTABLE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Belz Foundation · Lawrence Lewis Foundation · Plough Foundation · The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Terra Foundation for American Art · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bernard & Shirley Lapides Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.