· Private foundation
Lippes Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTIS NAPLES | $45,000 |
| GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE | $35,000 |
| THE WHITNEY MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| NAPLES ZOO | $12,500 |
| CAMP KOREY | $11,090 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,666 |
| CRFMC | $5,300 |
| SCHWARZMAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,550 |
| MOMA | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH ZION | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AIARTIS-NAPLES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $139k · revenue +14%
- NBNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC3× · 2020–2022 · $88k · revenue +167%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART5× · 2020–2024 · $74k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- NPNORTHWEST PUBLIC BROADCASTINGone grant, 2020 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
KADLEC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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,…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
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…
The westmoreland museum of american art offers a place to share compelling and meaningful cultural experiences that open the door to new ideas, perspectives, and possibilities.
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."
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Law Enforcement Foundation of Wny. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KADLEC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION OF WNY ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds THE HILARY GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Pierce Family Charitable Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Lippes 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
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.