· Private foundation
Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA SCHOOLS | $180,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| LUBAVITCH CENTER | $31,557 |
| BNEI EMUNAH CHABAD | $24,123 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CAMP GAN ISRAEL BNEI EMUNAH CHABAD | $20,000 |
| CAMP GAN ISRAEL CHABAD OF SQUIRREL HILL | $15,000 |
| ALEPH INSTITUTE | $13,000 |
| CHABAD OF THE SOUTH HILLS | $12,097 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER | $9,973 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,293 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,890 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HAHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH6× · 2017–2022 · $983k · revenue +21%
- YAYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2017–2024 · $443k · revenue +42%
- CACHASDEI AVOS6× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAone grant, 2021 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $45k
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.
To further jewish education in israel
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
Religious School
Furtherance of jewish education
Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 85 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 HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI AVOS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Keren Rachaim Fund ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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