· Private foundation
Charles & Rene Lipshitz Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of CHARLES & RENE LIPSHITZ FAMILY 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 $10k5 grants · $5k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS | $750,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN | $2,000 |
| WEST SIDE INSTITUTIONAL SYNAGOGUE | $1,770 |
| ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND | $500 |
| INITED HATZALAH OF WEST SIDE | $500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PARDES | $250 |
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 (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $751k 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
- BTBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA2× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +28%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +64%
- RCROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $25k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $58k · revenue -51%
- FOFriends of Rachashei Lev Whispers of The Heartgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +198%
- UFUS FRIENDS LEZION B'RINAone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
Assistance to establish a community in ramat beit shemesh, israel, founded upon torah principles, prayer, justice, charity and kindness to all peoples. to encourage and promote jewish religious activities.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Torah Academy of Buffalo Grove. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 44 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 INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Friends of Rachashei Lev Whispers of The Heart ↗
- Who funds ROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BUFFALO GROVE ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEREN ACHIM ↗
- Who funds West Side Hatzoloh ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC ↗
- Who funds Israel Select Charity Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds KEREN OR INC ↗
- Who funds CHASDAY NAOMI USA FRIENDS ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · The Lyons Family Foundation · Crain-Maling Foundation · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · The Ohr Hakotel Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Walder Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore
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 Charles & Rene Lipshitz Family 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.
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