· Private foundation
Robert and Lillian Philipson 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCK POINT SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $2,500 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC | $2,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL INC | $1,500 |
| THE PRINTMAKING LEGACY PROJECT INC | $1,500 |
| BRADLEY HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION CORPORATION | $1,500 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $1,500 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $1,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1 D | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $500 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC | $500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC | $500 |
| JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY | $250 |
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC7× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +4%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +260%- AJAMERICAN JEWISH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- HCHOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +201%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IN MONTGOMERY COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $1k
- WWWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +38%
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 84 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 BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds PRINTMAKING LEGACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DRIVEN TO CURE INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE MAST CELL DISEASE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor ↗
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: The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation · Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation · Bender Foundation Inc
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 Robert and Lillian Philipson 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.
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% of income from government
- Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd — 28% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Venice Theatre Inc — 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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