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Pipkin Charitable Foundation

Supporting organization of california community foundation. Charitable grant making.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
102
Grants FY2024
82
Organizations funded FY2023
34%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 82
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
20
Total assets, FY2024
$57M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Pipkin Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving100$1.7M43%
FY202382$1.9M34%
FY202279$1.7M100%
FY20201$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.7MHealth$699kPhilanthropy$308kPublic Benefit$303kEnvironment$292kArts & Culture$270kYouth Development$171kAnimals$150kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Pipkin Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Loyola Marymount University$805,00090%
Teach for America Inc$305,00090%
Portal Schools$220,000211%
League to Save Lake Tahoe$215,00082%
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles$215,00060%
Lake Tahoe Community College Foundation$207,500911%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$207,00060%
Kipp Socal Public Schools$200,00060%
Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe$200,00052%
Manhattan Beach Education Foundation$160,00091%
American Battlefield Trust$152,00080%
St Bernard High School$150,0005n/a
Between Horses and Humans$136,000387%
The Richstone Center Inc$135,00061%
Da Vinci Schools Fund$125,00067%
California YMCA Youth & Gvt$95,30060%
Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association$80,00036%
Douglas County School District$70,0006n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles$66,50090%
Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County$60,00080%
Fixn Fidos Inc$57,500424%
Oda Foundation$56,000420%
Mbx Foundation Inc$53,65091%
Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc$48,00043%
California Science Center Foundation$45,00070%
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation$45,00040%
Lulu & Leo Fund$40,00093%
My Chosen Vessels Inc$35,0002n/a
Wiseburn Education Foundation$30,00094%
Growinggreat$30,00082%
Pal Corp$30,0004n/a
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$30,00010%
University of Montevallo Foundation$30,00060%
Diabetes Camping & Education Services$25,00073%
Wildland Firefighter Foundation$25,00011%
Save The Children Federation Inc$25,00010%
The Safe Cities Foundation$25,0002n/a
California Charter Schools Association$25,00010%
Cospire$22,0001n/a
National Clean Water Collective$21,0001n/a
Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc$20,50050%
Manhattan Beach Unified School District$20,2004n/a
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education$20,0001n/a
Alliance for Community Development of the San Francisco Bay Area$20,00022%
Los Angeles Rams Foundation$20,00031%
Sugar Pine Foundation$20,00025%
American Youth Soccer Organization$16,00080%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$16,00080%
City of Hope$15,00030%
Manhattan Beach Coordinating Council$15,000919%
The Therapeutic Play Foundation Inc$15,00012%
Tahoe Arts Project$15,00067%
EL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation$15,00070%
Hospice of Santa Cruz County$15,00060%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$15,00060%
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association$15,00070%
Alpine Outdoor Recreation Association$13,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$12,60010%
Sos Outreach$12,00030%
Giving From the Heart Foundation$10,0002n/a
Alpine County Friends of the Library$10,0001n/a
The Friendship Foundation$10,00040%
Waterislifecom Inc$10,00012%
PowerMyLearning Inc$10,00040%
Reefs Race for a Cure Foundation$10,0002n/a
Taveuni Animal Lovers$10,0003n/a
City Year Inc$10,00020%
K9 Youth Alliance$10,00017%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Lake Tahoe Educational Foundation Inc$10,000620%
Schools That Can$10,00031%
Clark County Public Education Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Social & Emotional Wellness Initiative$10,00022%
Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay$9,00010%
National Psoriasis Foundation$7,00040%
YMCA Alumni$7,00031%
Marycrest Manor$6,50050%
International Surf Therapy Organization$6,00024%
Chill Foundation$6,00040%
Sunsnow Event Company$5,00025%
Haven Academy of the Arts$5,00031%
The Juniper Fund$5,00022%
California Heritage Indigenous Research Project$5,00010%
Give the Dream Foundation$5,0001n/a
San Francisco CASA$5,00010%
Pueblo Nuevo Education and Development G$5,00010%
The Hawthorne Parks Receation Foundation$5,0002n/a
Healing Arenas Inc$5,000110%
South Bay Boardriders Club$5,00012%
South Bay Artist Collective$5,00011%
Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc$5,00010%
Gateway Mountain Center Inc$5,00010%
Charity Global Inc$5,00010%
House of Hope Foundation Inc$5,00050%
Bertozzi Initiative Inc$5,0001n/a
Lupus Research Alliance Inc$5,00010%
Tahoe Learning Haven$5,0002n/a
Mountain High Recovery Center$5,0001n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$5,00040%
Foster the Family$5,00011%
First Nations Development Institute$5,00010%
Stuttering Foundation of America$5,00020%
911 Day$4,50010%
Fred Aptvi Foundation Inc$3,2501n/a
International Firefighter Cancer Fo$3,0001n/a
First Methodist Carrollton$3,0001n/a
South Tahoe National Little League INC$3,0003n/a
Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers Annandale High School PTSA$3,00032%
Ndri Ventures Inc$3,00012%
Firefighter Psychology Association$3,0001n/a
YMCA Emergency Assistance Fund$3,00051%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$2,50010%
Iglesia Cristiana Oasis de Gloria$2,50047%
Ripple of Change Foundation$2,5001n/a
Prison Yoga Chicago$2,5001n/a
Church of Jesus Christ El-Shaddai$2,5001n/a
Public Media Group of Southern California$2,50030%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$2,50020%
Northwest Passage Ltd$2,50010%
Sandpipers Philanthropy Fund Inc$2,5005n/a
PTA California Mb Middle School Manhattan Beach Middle School PTA$2,15051%
Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair$2,00051%
Gratitudemke Inc$2,0001n/a
Bijou Community School PTA$2,0001n/a
South Bay Families Connected$2,00031%
PTA California Congress of Parents Aurelia Pennekamp$1,60080%
Mission Compassion Paw Inc$1,50010%
Alma Backyard Farm$1,50010%
Kiwanis Club of Hawthorne Foundation$1,50014%
South Tahoe Vikings Booster Club$1,50013%
PTA California Congress of Parents Mira Costa High School$1,05020%
Frederick Community College Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Los Angeles County Police Canine Assoc$1,00041%
Kindling Inc$1,00014%
Friends of the Welty Environmental Center Inc$1,00010%
Neptunian Womans Club of Manhattan$1,00021%
Tahoe Chamber Foundation$1,0001n/a
Alpine Watershed Group$1,00010%
I Stand With My Pack Inc$1,00010%
DC High School Baseball Classic Inc$1,0001n/a
Friends of Ballona Wetlands$1,00010%
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc$1,00010%
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation$1,00010%
Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe Fndt$1,00010%
Pug Rescue of Korea$1,00011%
Lift Literature Inc$1,0001n/a
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$1,00010%
Sierra Educational Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Impact Melanoma Inc$50010%
Zephyr Cove Elementary School Parents Club$50011%
PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students INC$5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Pipkin Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 117 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLoyola Marymount University: $805,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $305,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPortal Schools: $220,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLeague to Save Lake Tahoe: $215,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Los Angeles: $215,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLake Tahoe Community College Foundation: $207,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $207,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKipp Socal Public Schools: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe: $200,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetManhattan Beach Education Foundation: $160,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $152,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBetween Horses and Humans: $136,000 over 3y, 87% of budgetThe Richstone Center Inc: $135,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDa Vinci Schools Fund: $125,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetCalifornia YMCA Youth & Gvt: $95,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTahoe Area Mountain Biking Association: $80,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $66,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEconomic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County: $60,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFixn Fidos Inc: $57,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetOda Foundation: $56,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetMbx Foundation Inc: $53,650 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetLake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc: $48,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCalifornia Science Center Foundation: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLulu & Leo Fund: $40,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetWiseburn Education Foundation: $30,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetGrowinggreat: $30,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Montevallo Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDiabetes Camping & Education Services: $25,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetWildland Firefighter Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Charter Schools Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCarson Valley Community Food Closet Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance for Community Development of the San Francisco Bay Area: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLos Angeles Rams Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSugar Pine Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetAmerican Youth Soccer Organization: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCity of Hope: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan Beach Coordinating Council: $15,000 over 9y, 19% of budgetThe Therapeutic Play Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTahoe Arts Project: $15,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetEL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation: $15,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHospice of Santa Cruz County: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Los Angeles Zoological Association: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $12,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 117.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA30.8× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · El Dorado Community Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Skechers Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club Foundation · The John H & Cynthia Lee Smet 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.

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How do I get to Pipkin Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pipkin Charitable 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.

About Pipkin Charitable Foundation

How much does Pipkin Charitable Foundation give?
Pipkin Charitable Foundation reported 102 grants totaling $1,770,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 82 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Pipkin Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (13%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are Pipkin Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Loyola Marymount University ($805k), Teach for America Inc ($305k), Portal Schools ($220k).
Does Pipkin Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pipkin Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
Where is Pipkin Charitable Foundation based?
Pipkin Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 155 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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