· Private foundation
Melvin a Lipsitz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPRIGHT AFRICA | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UAUPRIGHT AFRICA INC3× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue -41%
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF WACO & CENTRAL TX4× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue -11%
- CSCHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL4× · 2017–2022 · $12k
Funded once
- WFWACO FAMILY MEDICINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
CREATIVE WACOone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -3%- SPST PAULS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
To collect, maintain, preserve, publish and interpret the heritage and history of waco, mclennan county, texas
Start up waco is a texas nonprofit organization formed via collaboration of cross-sector partnerships that aspire to lead waco's entrepreneurial support efforts and elevate waco as a hub for business innovation.
Festival on the brazos is a non-profit volunteer organization that promotes the unique spirit of waco by sharing waco's history, providing educational scholarships, and creating community-minded connections.
To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.
To engage and enrich our community by providing outstanding arts programming and cultural activities that inspire creativity and participation.
The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.
The mission of the waco civic theatre, a non-profit organization, is to provide the heart of texas community with quality live theatre, to create an outlet for community education and participation in all aspects of productions, and to…
Preserve the aviation history of the weaver aircraft company
The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and promote the history, cultural arts, and past traditions of weslaco, texas, and its surrounding region.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UPRIGHT AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF WACO & CENTRAL TX ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE WACO ↗
- Who funds Tourette Syndrome Association of Texas ↗
- Who funds CAMERON PARK ZOOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Brazos Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WACO MAMMOTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP WACO BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Waco Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melvin a Lipsitz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin a Lipsitz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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