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Lipton 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $125,530 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $52,892 |
| MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $25,800 |
| TORAH LISHMA | $25,000 |
| THE SHUL OF BAL HARBOUR | $20,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $19,800 |
| JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| JCC ROCK STEADY BOXING | $10,000 |
| EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE | $3,600 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| MOBILE SCHOOL PANTRY | $1,800 |
| JCS KOSHER FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL | $360 |
| PROJECT 24 | $198 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Lipton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- IOINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC6× · 2019–2024 · $768k · revenue +44%
- SOSHUL OF BAL HARBOUR INC6× · 2019–2024 · $149k
- JRJCC ROCK STEADY BOXING6× · 2019–2024 · $62k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HILLELone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MCMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +64%
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.
Miami jewish health systems, inc. was incorporated to provide shelter for the elderly and develop social & health programs relating to their care. in addition, research & educational programs are conducted for the elderly to enhance their…
The center for jewish life is a kehillah-an important hub for the entire central miami community. the center is a home-base for jewish communal life and living.
The organization's mission is to solicit and invest contributions for the benefit of and support of the activities of miami jewish health systems, inc. and related affiliates.
To support the greater miami jewish federation and other irc code section 501(c)(3) organizations. philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking programs.
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
Our school is run on a system of mutual respect, for teachers, administration and students. in a warm and caring environment, full of creativity and multi-faceted approaches to education, we ignite a spark in each girl to love hashem and…
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…
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Catopia Cat Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 33 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 INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH LISHMA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MIAMI ANIMALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOSHUAS HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HATZALAH SOUTH FLORIDA EMERGENCY MEDCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATOPIA CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Lipton 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.
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 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.
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