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Dorothy D & John C Fitterer Foundation Inc C/O Lipsky Goodkin & Co

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$142kHuman Services$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kAnimals$7kInternational$6kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Benefit$4kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$700
Median grant
11
States reached
$330k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$4,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$3,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$3,500
CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL OF MOUNTAINSIDE$3,500
HACKENSACK MERIDIAN JFK MEDICAL CENTER$3,000
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$3,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$1,500
COOPERMAN BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER$1,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$700
BOYS TOWN$500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$500
TOYS FOR TOTS$500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$200
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $2k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $700 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $2k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $700 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $625 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $600 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $700 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$224k · 36 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
11

Total granted

$224k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+19%

Still filing today

64%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +145%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +46%
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
    8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • AI
    AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -32%
  • SG
    SUSSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURE
    one grant, 2020 · $800
  • SB
    ST BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $500
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
American College of Surgeons

The american college of surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.

Education
6
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
7
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
8
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
9
American Association of Kidney Patients Inc

AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients. Cont on Sch O.

Health
10
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
11
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
12
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
28/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $27,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $9,700 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $8,600 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEJFK MEDICAL CENTER: $8,250 · OtherJFK MEDICAL CENTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $7,650 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCHACKENSACK MERIDIAN JFK MEDICAL CENTER: $7,000 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN JFK MEDICAL CENTERCOOPERMAN BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER: $4,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,900 · Other+14 more: $12,925 · Other+14 moreCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL: $28,785 · HealthCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITALST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $27,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $10,250 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical CenterSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $4,300 · HealthCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $3,950 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $3,700 · Health+8 more: $3,675 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National…Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $8,300 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,425 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR P…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,675 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,850 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,450 · International+1 more: $150 · InternationalHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,850 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 · AnimalsSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,900 · AnimalsMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $4,835 · PhilanthropyOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $1,100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$89,525Health$82,160Human Services$35,225International$8,125Animals$6,750Philanthropy$4,835Housing & Shelter$1,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL: $28,785 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $27,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $10,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $8,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $7,650 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $4,835 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,675 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,425 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $4,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $3,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $3,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Research Foundation Inc: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION FINALLY HOME ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Parkinson Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorothy D & John C Fitterer Foundation Inc C/O Lipsky Goodkin & Co funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy D & John C Fitterer Foundation Inc C/O Lipsky Goodkin & Co. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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