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Lipin Family Foundation

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.

$11k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Education$271kAnimals$168kHealth$34kArts & Culture$30kInternational$20kReligion$20kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIDS Life Cycle$6,000
Beth Israel$5,000
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Museum of Contemporary Art: $10k → 11%AIDS Life Cycle: $6k → 14%Susan G Komen: $5k → 14%Americares: $20k → 9%Museum of Contemporary Art: $10k → 11%AIDS Life Cycle: $6k → 14%Susan G Komen: $5k → 14%Museum of Contemporary Art: $10k → 11%AIDS Life Cycle: $6k → 14%Friends of AEA: $1k → 11%AIDS Life Cycle: $6k → 14%Eastlake Highschool: $2k → 11%The Gentle Barn: $30k → 14%Flip Force Fund: $1k → 11%The Gentle Barn: $18k → 14%Flip Force Fund: $1k → 11%The Gentle Barn: $10k → 14%The Campanile Foundation: $250k → 11%Face Foundation: $15k → 11%Face Foundation: $10k → 11%Face Foundation: $10k → 11%San Diego Humane Society: $15k → 11%San Diego Humane Society: $15k → 11%Meals on Wheels San Diego: $10k → 11%Beth Israel: $10k → 11%San Diego Humane Society: $10k → 11%Beth Israel: $5k → 11%San Diego Humane Society: $10k → 11%Beth Israel: $5k → 11%Southwest High SchoolAthletics Foot: $3k → 11%Monarch School: $20k → 11%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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235k · 9 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$235k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+28%

Still filing today

44%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23
AnimalsArts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TG
    THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $58k · revenue +22%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +134%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGOgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -22%
  • MS
    MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -15%
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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
5
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
6
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
7
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
8
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
9
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
10
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
11
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Gentle Barn Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATIONMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $20,000 · EducationMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECTTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $57,500 · AnimalsTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATIONSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $50,000 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY A…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN …Face Foundation: $35,000 · OtherFace FoundationAIDS Life Cycle: $24,000 · OtherAIDS Life CycleBeth Israel: $20,000 · OtherBeth IsraelHuman Rights Campaign: $7,000 · OtherHuman Rights Campa…Southwest High SchoolAthletics Foot: $3,161 · Other+3 more: $5,148 · Other+3 moreTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $29,700 · Arts & CultureAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$270,000Animals$132,500Other$94,309Arts & Culture$29,700International$20,000Health$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $29,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lipin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lipin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lipin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lipin Family Foundation 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 17 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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