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Kenneth and Lois Lippmann Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$399kEducation$140kHealth$98kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$5kReligion$4kRecreation & Sports$1kScience & Tech$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION$75,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$30,000
RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY$10,000
HARLEM ACADEMY$5,000
DEGREGORIO FOUNDATION$5,000
WEATHERSFIELD FOUNDATION$2,500
FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH$2,500
THE JIMMY FUND$1,000
RAMAPO COLLEGE$1,000
MAYO CLINIC$200
Individual grant recipient$200
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$200
NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY$100
Individual grant recipient$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE JIMMY FUND: $1k → 7%THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $5k → 7%WEATHERSFIELD FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%DEGREGORIO FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%READWORKS: $2k → 17%MARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $10k → 20%ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%DARIAN HITCHCOCK CLINIC: $3k → 7%THE DEGREGRIO FUND: $5k → 9%MARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $10k → 20%DEGREGORIO FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%MARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $6k → 20%THE DEGREGRIO FUND: $5k → 9%MARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $5k → 20%FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH: $3k → 14%DEGREGORIO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%MARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $2k → 20%FRIENDS OF WESTERFIELD: $4k → 17%NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC: $10k → 17%NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION: $75k → 9%HARLEM ACADEMY: $5k → 17%NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION: $55k → 9%HARLEM ACADEMY: $5k → 17%NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%HARLEM ACADEMY: $5k → 17%NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%HARLEM ACADEMY: $5k → 17%NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%HARLEM ACADEMY: $5k → 17%NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%HARLEM ACADEMY: $4k → 17%NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION: $17k → 9%RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $15k → 9%RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $15k → 9%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $30k → 17%RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $10k → 9%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $15k → 17%RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $10k → 9%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $10k → 17%RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $6k → 9%RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $5k → 9%RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $3k → 9%ST JUDE CHURCH: $4k → 17%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5k → 17%THE WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST: $2k → 9%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

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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$638k · 21 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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19

Total granted

$638k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+39%

Still filing today

52%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
HealthEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyScience & TechYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NS
    NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $382k · revenue +338%
  • RK
    RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +53%
  • HA
    HARLEM ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • TG
    THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%
  • OE
    ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -35%
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.

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Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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2
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
3
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wethersfield Foundation Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $382,000 · EnvironmentNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC+6 more: $14,075 · EnvironmentMARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $33,500 · OtherMARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS S…MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $30,010 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERIN…MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $29,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERIN…DEGREGORIO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherDEGREGORIO FOUNDATIONTHE DEGREGRIO FUND: $10,000 · OtherTHE DEGREGRIO FUNDAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $5,000 · Other+18 more: $26,400 · Other+18 moreRUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $65,000 · EducationRUTH KEELER MEMO…HARLEM ACADEMY: $31,500 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMYREADWORKSINC: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $1,400 · EducationNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,000 · HealthDEGREGORIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · HealthFriends of Cancer Research: $2,500 · Health+3 more: $2,200 · HealthSwim Across America Inc: $7,000 · PhilanthropyONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,000 · Science & Tech
Environment$396,075Other$143,910Education$102,900Health$35,700Philanthropy$7,000Youth Development$5,000Science & Tech$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $382,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetRUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $65,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $31,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADWORKSINC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEGREGORIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $4,475 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BIG SIOUX RIVER: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $100 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 NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds READWORKSINC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DEGREGORIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds WETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BIG SIOUX RIVER ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA12.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kenneth and Lois Lippmann Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth and Lois Lippmann Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 63%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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Find your warmest path to Kenneth and Lois Lippmann Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

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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