· Private foundation
Liz Whitney Tippett Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $157,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $178,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Michael J Foxx Foundation | $15,000 |
| Veterans Foundation | $10,000 |
| Easter Seals of Volusia | $10,000 |
| Healthwell Foundation | $10,000 |
| Middlesex School | $10,000 |
| Lindenwood College | $10,000 |
| Lupus Foundation | $10,000 |
| St Judes Children Research | $10,000 |
| Black Mountain Childrens Home | $10,000 |
| Halifax Health Foundation | $10,000 |
| Biltmore | $10,000 |
| Pardee Hospital Foundation | $10,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 |
| Asheville Christian School | $5,000 |
| Safelight Inc | $5,000 |
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 +94% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- LELINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
MIDDLESEX SCHOOL5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +26%- PMPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $23k · revenue +26%
Funded once
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -22%- CFCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +67%
- FPFirst Presbyteran Church of Ashevilleone grant, 2018 · $10k
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 primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
Johnston health foundation seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities by supporting the patients, programs, and services of unc health johnston. the foundation seeks to be a philanthropic leader and…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is Psc Partners Seeking a Cure. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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 62 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.
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- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZERO PROSTATE CANCER ↗
- Who funds PSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Healthwell Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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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.
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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.
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