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Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$555k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$2.8MPhilanthropy$915kEducation$140kInternational$86kArts & Culture$44kCivil Rights$13kPublic Benefit$5kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAPPIN FOUNDATION$555,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT$535,000
STAND WITH US$10,000
OPENDOR MEDIA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,300
TEMPLE NER TAMID$300
CONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL$250
NSJCC$250
NEW ENGLAND MARCH OF THE LIVING$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS: $10k → 7%Chabad of the North Shore: $13k → 10%Combined Jewish Philanthropies: $26k → 16%MIDDLE EAST FORUM: $5k → 22%STAND WITH US: $10k → 14%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $28k → 6%FRIENDS OF ELNET: $5k → 17%CLARION PROJECT: $5k → 14%IMAGINATION PRODUCTIONS: $150k → 13%JEWISH NEWS SERVICES: $10k → 8%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $535k → 7%Internl Fellow of Christian &Jews: $5k → 14%Dartmouth College: $5k → 10%CHABAD OF THE NORTH SHORE: $10k → 10%Combined Jewish Philanthropies: $25k → 16%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $25k → 6%FRIENDS OF ELNET: $5k → 17%OPENDOR MEDIA: $100k → 13%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $5k → 10%Chabad of the North Shore: $9k → 10%Combined Jewish Philanthropies: $25k → 16%MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%Shalom International: $4k → 17%OPENDOR MEDIA: $15k → 13%Dartmouth College: $5k → 10%OPENDOR MEDIA: $10k → 13%Dartmouth College: $5k → 10%HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $10k → 17%OPENDOR MEDIA: $5k → 13%Camera Committee for Accuracy: $4k → 16%Camera Committee for Accuracy: $4k → 16%JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE: $25k → 8%Camera Committee for Accuracy: $4k → 16%VARIOUS: $13k → 10%Various: $6k → 10%LAPPIN FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 10%LAPPIN FOUNDATION: $925k → 10%LAPPIN FOUNDATION: $555k → 10%Gordon College: $50k → 10%GORDON COLLEGE: $10k → 10%Gordon College: $10k → 10%Gordon College: $10k → 10%Lappin Foundaton: $303k → 10%Salem State University: $11k → 10%Salem State University: $10k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%Salem State University: $5k → 10%JEWISH JOURNAL: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
RI
CA
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 22 repeat orgs$636k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
24

Total granted

$3.4M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+6%

Still filing today

32%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $536k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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

  • LF
    LAPPIN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +258% · 63% of their budget
  • OM
    OPENDOR MEDIA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +97%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    2× · 2020–2021 · $53k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • JN
    JEWISH NEWS SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

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Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
6
Novachai
Education
7
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
10
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
11
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Hillel's mission is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

Religion
12
The Jerusalem Connection
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opendor Media Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

20 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. 20 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAPPIN FOUNDATION: $2,782,564 · ReligionLAPPIN FOUNDATIONOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $280,000 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INCVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $535,000 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE …CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE NORTH SHORE: $31,500 · OtherSalem State University: $31,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+27 more: $118,219 · Other+27 moreGORDON COLLEGE: $80,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $20,000 · EducationMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationCentral Fund of Israel: $52,500 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $12,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNET: $10,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INC: $5,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $5,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $3,600 · International+1 more: $250 · InternationalCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $76,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyLEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLARION PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureUNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Religion$3,062,564Other$740,719Education$106,000International$93,850Philanthropy$77,000Arts & Culture$15,200Civil Rights$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAPPIN FOUNDATION: $2,782,564 over 4y, 63% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $280,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $76,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $52,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCLARION PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOC EMET PRODUCTIONS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LAPPIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
  • Who funds LEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA ↗

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…The William P Goldman…The Milstein Family F…The Snider FoundationJewish Community Fede…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Montserrat College of Art Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Gordon College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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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.

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

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