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Lipper Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$175k
Granted FY2023
38
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

80% of Lipper Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Lipper Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $175k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
8
’18
16
’19
23
’20
36
’21
14
’22
23
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$794kEducation$143kHealth$143kScience & Tech$100kPhilanthropy$47kHuman Services$8kReligion$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2023 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k35 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$856k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$68,600
OVERLOOK FOUNDATION$35,075
MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOC OF THE UNION$25,000
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION$6,130
CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,600
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$5,300
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BRICK CITY ROWING$5,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$4,170
ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKE'S$3,000
OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION$2,500
METROPLITAN MUSUEM OF ART$1,108
SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY$1,000
THE NEWARK MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NJ$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RUBYE'S KIDS INC: $250 → 7%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $500 → 12%SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION: $100 → 12%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $200 → 8%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FUND: $3k → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FUND: $2k → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FUND: $244 → 7%THE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $500 → 10%SUMMIT AREA YMCA: $500 → 10%THE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $100 → 10%SUMMIT AREA YMCA: $100 → 10%CHARITY WATER: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 28 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
51

Total granted

$1.1M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+25%

Still filing today

82%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    6× · 2018–2023 · $595k · revenue +16%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +19%
  • NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $95k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • FU
    Fordham University
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +15%
  • AH
    ATLANTIC HEALTH SYSTEMS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • TN
    THE NEWARK MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
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
7
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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8
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
9
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
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
12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community Food PantriesCancer Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports ProgramsYmca Youth DevelopmentHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr11%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr18%1%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr11%68%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
12%
6,333/52,221

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
52/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $594,700 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRANEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $95,161 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATIONTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIONTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $30,260 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $21,774 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $100,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $80,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLU…Fordham University — $25,000 · EducationFordham UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $22,650 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE …+4 more — $6,211 · EducationOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $115,250 · HealthOVERLOOK F…+7 more — $1,250 · HealthOUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 · OtherST VINCENTS ACADEMY — $12,100 · OtherATLANTIC HEALTH SYSTEMS — $10,000 · OtherCALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $5,600 · OtherBRICK CITY ROWING — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY — $3,300 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUND — $2,600 · Other+52 more — $14,818 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $26,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $225 · PhilanthropyMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,194 · Human ServicesTHE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES — $600 · Human ServicesSUMMIT AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $600 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES — $500 · Human Services+4 more — $650 · Human ServicesREEVES - REED ARBORETUM — $1,500 · Environment
Arts & Culture$786,895Education$233,861Health$116,500Other$71,918Philanthropy$46,225Human Services$7,544Environment$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $594,700 over 6y, 20% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $115,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $95,161 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $30,260 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $22,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $9,170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $5,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,194 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY — $3,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY — $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND — $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $2,204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREEVES - REED ARBORETUM — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLASSROOTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE - GIVING AND RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FOR OUR COMMUNITY'S ESSENTIALS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUBYE'S KIDS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC — $230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLi Fraumeni Syndrome Association Inc — $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT LUMINARY FUND — $125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $115 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $111 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Investors Foundation …Pseg Foundation IncEj Grassmann TrustBristol-Myers Squibb …Victoria Foundation I…The McJ Amelior Found…Verizon FoundationThe Prudential Founda…Turrell FundThe Provident Bank Fo…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ30.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Victoria Foundation Inc · The McJ Amelior Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Prudential Foundation · Turrell Fund · The Provident Bank Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lipper Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
  • Newark School of the Arts — 20% of income from government
  • Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
  • Glassroots Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Reeves - Reed Arboretum — 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines