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.

Pipkin Charitable Foundation

Pipkin Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

Pipkin Charitable Foundation

Supporting organization of california community foundation.

$1.8M

Granted FY2024still arriving

102

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2024 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k62 grants · $203k
$10k–50k27 grants · $527k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$57M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY	$200,000
BETWEEN HORSES AND HUMANS	$131,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA	$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAKE TAHOE	$70,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES	$70,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$70,000
LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$68,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES	$64,000
RICHSTONE FAMILY CENTER INC	$60,000
MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$57,000
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE	$50,000
AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST	$50,000
ST BERNARD HIGH SCHOOL	$50,000
MBX FOUNDATION	$48,150
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES	$37,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.6M · 63 repeat orgs$584k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.6M

$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+8%

Still filing today

89%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

LM
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +68%
LT
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE
8× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +122%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES
6× · 2019–2025 · $215k · revenue +71%

Funded once

EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -36%
WF
WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +13%
Save The Children Federation Inc
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -13%

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.

Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education

The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education

California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment

University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education

Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education

Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…

Education

Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy

The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education

University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kindling Inc. 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

189 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

185/189

Grantees still filing

115/189

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$2,016,150Other$1,772,050Health$500,100Philanthropy$395,500Arts & Culture$300,500Human Services$266,000Religion$217,500

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pipkin Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pipkin Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through Plinth

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The camps

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By state

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