Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $577k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 43
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 33 | $577k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $651k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $580k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $540k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $306k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $470k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $992k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $794k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh | $982,500 | 6 | 8% |
| Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh | $442,680 | 5 | 2% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $320,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lubavitch Center | $266,832 | 8 | n/a |
| Bnai Emunah Chabad Inc | $167,798 | 8 | n/a |
| Aleph Institute Inc | $86,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Chasdei Avos | $34,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Chabad of Squirrel Hill Inc | $33,302 | 4 | n/a |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple Ohav Shalom | $29,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 31 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh | $982,500 | 6 | 8% |
| Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh | $442,680 | 5 | 2% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $320,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lubavitch Center | $266,832 | 8 | n/a |
| Bnai Emunah Chabad Inc | $167,798 | 8 | n/a |
| Aleph Institute Inc | $86,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Chasdei Avos | $34,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Chabad of Squirrel Hill Inc | $33,302 | 4 | n/a |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple Ohav Shalom | $29,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Temple Emanuel of South Hills | $27,653 | 5 | n/a |
| Opendor Media Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Day School | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Keren Rachaim Fund | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Shalom | $18,700 | 4 | n/a |
| Beth El Congregation | $15,915 | 4 | n/a |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friendship Circle | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Shaare Torah Congregation | $13,745 | 7 | n/a |
| Ne Eman Foundation USA | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Pfap Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends of Natal Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Beth Jacob Congregation | $4,272 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple David | $2,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Sisterhood | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Poale Zedeck | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Shalom | $1,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char · David S Shapira Foundation · Pittsburgh Jewish Pre-Kindergarten Educational Improvement Foundation · Tzedakah Foundation · Robert I Glimcher Family Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Julius L & Libbie B Steinsapir Fdn · Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation · Perlow Family Foundation · Isadore & Yetta Joshowitz Charitable Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation
How this is measured
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About Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust
- How much does Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust give?
- Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust reported 33 grants totaling $576,660 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Religion (40%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh ($983k), Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh ($443k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($320k).
- Does Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char, David S Shapira Foundation.
- Where is Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust based?
- Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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