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Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$563k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$3.9MEducation$3.8MReligion$777kPhilanthropy$628kCivil Rights$625kPublic Benefit$180kScience & Tech$45kSocial Science$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $625k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$1,800
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JCBA$563,000
LIPPMAN DAY SCHOOL$356,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NY$250,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$250,000
A MORE PERFECT UNION$225,000
CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION$200,000
YESHIVA DERECH HATORAH$100,000
CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION$100,000
REVERE ROAD SYNAGOGUE$12,000
SHAW JCC OF AKRON$10,000
HILLEL AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
MAZON$5,000
BETH EL CONGREGATION$4,000
HUNGER FREE AMERICA$3,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$2,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $180 → 17%IMMERSE NYC: $10k → 20%IMMERSE NYC: $10k → 20%SHAW JCC OF AKRON: $20k → 13%SHAW JCC OF AKRON: $20k → 13%SHAW JCC OF AKRON: $10k → 13%SHAW JCC OF AKRON: $10k → 13%SHAW JCC OF AKRON: $10k → 13%SHAW JCC OF AKRON: $10k → 13%SHAW JCC OF AKRON: $10k → 13%SHAW JCC OF AKRON: $10k → 13%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

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CO
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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.7M · 23 repeat orgs$712k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
12

Total granted

$9.7M
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+36%

Still filing today

30%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k 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
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

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

  • CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +32%
  • PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +347%
  • Civic Nation
    2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +780%

Funded once

  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +12%
  • UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -2%
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    THE HEBREW ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

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
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
2
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
3
One for Israel

One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…

4
Indivisible Civics

The mission of indivisible civics is to build civic leadership to empower a grassroots movement that's advancing progressive values and policies. it educates and builds the capacity of grassroots activists with organizing support,…

Civil Rights
5
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

9
Indivisible Project

Indivisible project's mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.

Civil Rights
10
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
12
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Before Its Too Late 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 backsteadyJewish Community FederationsFood Pantries & AssistanceYouth Sports Booster Organi…Land Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsVolunteer Fire DepartmentsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Government Accountability R…
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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr21%29%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr20%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%15%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr14%6%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr20%47%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,273

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

26 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIPPMAN DAY SCHOOL — $2,828,283 · OtherLIPPMAN DAY SCHOOLJCBA — $2,391,013 · OtherJCBAA MORE PERFECT UNION — $575,000 · OtherA MORE PERFECT UNIONLURIA ACADEMY — $500,720 · OtherLURIA ACADEMYKOLLEL YAD CHAIM MORDECHAI — $408,000 · Other+37 more — $1,185,310 · Other+37 moreCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC — $1,509,000 · PhilanthropyCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATI…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEA…+2 more — $24,120 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA DERECH HATORAH INC — $400,180 · EducationPURPOSE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationCivic Nation — $30,000 · EducationPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $150,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON — $100,000 · Human ServicesBELOVED BUILDERS INC — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $180 · Human ServicesFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $72,000 · Community ImprovementTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $45,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $3,600 · International
Other$7,888,326Philanthropy$1,783,120Education$480,180Civil Rights$175,000Human Services$120,180Community Improvement$72,000International$48,600

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 budgetCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC — $1,509,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON — $100,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $72,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPURPOSE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Nation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBELOVED BUILDERS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetART POSSIBLE OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetGREATNONPROFITS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER FREE AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMatan BSayser of Cleveland Inc — $120 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.

  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds YESHIVA DERECH HATORAH INC
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
  • Who funds PURPOSE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND
  • Who funds Civic Nation
  • Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC
  • Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BELOVED BUILDERS INC
  • Who funds BEFORE ITS TOO LATE INC
  • Who funds ART POSSIBLE OHIO
  • Who funds GREATNONPROFITS
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY16.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Lippman Kanfer Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lippman Kanfer 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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