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Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah at a glance

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Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$4.7MCivil Rights$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.8MEducation$996kInternational$980kArts & Culture$830kPublic Benefit$655kCommunity Improvement$445kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k27 grants · $618k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$35,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$750,000
A MORE PERFECT UNION$225,000
BROOKLYN ORG$200,000
Individual grant recipient$125,000
HONEYMOON ISRAEL$100,000
SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NA$100,000
MECHON HADAR$68,000
JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT$50,000
ONE TABLE$50,000
PARDES$50,000
CIVIC SPIRIT$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
SVARA$50,000
SHALOM CENTER$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA - JEDI$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWS OF COLOR FIELD-BUILDING INITIATIVE - IMPACT CUBED: $35k → 11%JEWS OF COLOR FIELD-BUILDING INITIATIVE - IMPACT CUBED: $35k → 11%JEWS OF COLOR FIELD-BUILDING INITIATIVE - IMPACT CUBED: $35k → 11%JEWS OF COLOR FIELD-BUILDING INITIATIVE - IMPACT CUBED: $35k → 11%JEWS OF COLOR FIELD-BUILDING INITIATIVE - IMPACT CUBED: $20k → 11%JEWS OF COLOR FIELD-BUILDING INITIATIVE - IMPACT CUBED: $10k → 11%DOROT: $180 → 17%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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 80 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
42

Total granted

$12M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+12%

Still filing today

45%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k 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
ReligionEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • HI
    HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $606k · revenue +40%
  • UB
    UPSTART BAY AREA
    5× · 2017–2022 · $430k · revenue +20%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • LD
    LIPPMAN DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $170k
  • BT
    BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2018 · $170k
  • CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +57%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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4
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
5
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
6
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
8
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
9
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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10
The Jerusalem Connection
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11
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
12
Sherit Isroel
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mayberg Family Charitable 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

65 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. 65 of the 132 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/65
Grantees still filing
43/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A MORE PERFECT UNION: $825,000 · OtherA MORE PERFECT UNIONBEND THE ARC: $406,000 · OtherSHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NA: $400,000 · OtherHAZON INC: $339,220 · OtherRESETTING THE TABLE INC: $290,000 · Other+82 more: $6,335,296 · Other+82 moreHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $606,250 · ReligionHONEYMOON ISRAEL…HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $350,485 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUND…JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $180,000 · ReligionJOIN FOR JUSTICE…INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $175,000 · ReligionINSTITUTE FOR JE…THE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT: $160,000 · ReligionTHE JEWISH STUDI…THE ONE AMERICA MOVEMENT: $150,000 · ReligionTHE ONE AMERICA …SVARA: $125,000 · ReligionONETABLE INC: $125,000 · ReligionBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $85,000 · ReligionJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $83,000 · Religion+6 more: $322,000 · Religion+6 moreAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $875,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $326,930 · InternationalTHE SHALO…T'RUAH: $80,000 · InternationalT'RUAHPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $45,000 · InternationalFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $846,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY …UPSTART BAY AREA: $430,000 · Community ImprovementUPSTART B…JEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON: $335,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement: $165,000 · PhilanthropyCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $40,000 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF: $235,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT LTD: $158,830 · Arts & CultureTHE AYIN INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE DYBBUK: $90,000 · Arts & CultureLet It Ripple Inc: $70,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUMS INC: $53,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureM2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION: $223,000 · EducationJEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION: $157,500 · EducationSEFARIA INC: $57,850 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGE: $50,180 · EducationAYEKA LTD: $30,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Education+3 more: $20,680 · Education
Other$8,595,516Religion$2,361,735International$1,326,930Community Improvement$1,276,000Philanthropy$840,000Arts & Culture$726,830Education$624,210

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 budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $875,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $846,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $606,250 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA: $430,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $350,485 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHAZON INC: $339,220 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON: $335,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $326,930 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRESETTING THE TABLE INC: $290,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF: $235,000 over 5y, 57% of budgetM2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION: $223,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $180,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $175,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSH'MA INSTITUTE: $173,711 over 2y, 89% of budgetIMPACT CUBED: $170,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetPhilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement: $165,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT: $160,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetTHE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT LTD: $158,830 over 4y, 35% of budgetJEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION: $157,500 over 4y, 47% of budgetTHE ONE AMERICA MOVEMENT: $150,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetKESHET INC: $138,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAT THE WELL PROJECT INC: $125,600 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSVARA: $125,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetONETABLE INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWilderness Torah: $102,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE AYIN INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHEATRE DYBBUK: $90,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $83,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $82,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetT'RUAH: $80,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBAMIDBAR: $60,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJewish Women International: $60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSEFARIA INC: $57,850 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $57,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUMS INC: $53,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $50,180 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIMBAM: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetKavod vNichum: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSACRED SPACES: $45,000 over 2y, 2.4% 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 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UPSTART BAY AREA ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds HAZON INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON ↗
  • Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds RESETTING THE TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THE NEXT JEWISH FUTURE INJF ↗
  • Who funds M2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds PARDES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SH'MA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT CUBED ↗
  • Who funds Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT LTD ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ONE AMERICA MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds KESHET INC ↗
  • Who funds AT THE WELL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SVARA ↗

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.

The Shimon Ben Joseph…Covenant FoundationFjcJewish Community Fede…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…The Jewish Federation…Upstart Bay AreaCircle of Service Fou…The Righteous Persons…
The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph FoundationCA60.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Covenant Foundation · Fjc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Upstart Bay Area · Circle of Service Foundation · The Righteous Persons 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 Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report 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, 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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How do I get to Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah?

Find your warmest path to Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah 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 132 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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