Massachusetts · Private foundation
Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $555,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $1.1M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $1.0M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $987k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $174k | 76% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $212k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $338k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $56k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $85k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lappin Foundation | $2,782,564 | 4 | 63% |
| Opendor Media Inc | $280,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Gordon College | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $52,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the North Shore | $31,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Elnet | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Leading Edge Productions Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Temple Ahavat Achim | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Clarion Project Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lappin Foundation | $2,782,564 | 4 | 63% |
| Opendor Media Inc | $280,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Gordon College | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $52,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the North Shore | $31,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Elnet | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Leading Edge Productions Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Temple Ahavat Achim | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Clarion Project Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Merona Leadership Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Middle East Forum | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Americans for Peace and Tolerance Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc | $3,600 | 1 | 0% |
| United Nations Watch - USA | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple Emanu-El | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Shirat Hayam | $1,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple Ner Tamid Inc | $1,140 | 3 | n/a |
| Montserrat College Of Art Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Community of Jesus Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Doc Emet Productions Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Sons of Israel | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($698k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The William P Goldman and Brothers Foundation Inc · The Milstein Family Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation
- How much does Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation give?
- Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,117,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (69%), Philanthropy (22%), Education (3%).
- Who are Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lappin Foundation ($2.8M), Opendor Media Inc ($280k), Gordon College ($80k).
- Does Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, The William P Goldman and Brothers Foundation Inc, The Milstein Family Foundation.
- Where is Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation based?
- Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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