· Private foundation
Robert L & Rhoda Lipton Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $46,500 |
| CONGREGATION SFAT TAMMIM | $38,162 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| KNESSET YEHUDA INC | $10,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MAGEN DAVID SEPHORDIE CRUZ | $9,480 |
| David Dov Foundation | $8,000 |
| WITS | $6,000 |
| Yeshiva Elementary School | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE KOLLEL | $4,500 |
| CHABAD OF THE VALLEY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,300 |
| bais yaakov - Beth Jacob | $2,000 |
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 US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($683k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($81k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($81k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
- YDYESHIVA DERECH HATORAH8× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +111%
- DDDAVID DOV FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $72k
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2017–2024 · $57k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $16k
- CMCONG MISCHKNOIS LAVIER YAKOV INCone grant, 2023 · $12k
- PVPARK VIEW MINYAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +30%
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.
Religious Teaching
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.
High school, offering academic classes in english, history, math, and science, as well as a full array of courses in judaic studies and co-curricular activities such as physical education and classes in the arts.
Provide a building for a religious school.
Providing quality jewish education and programing and services
Operation of a pre-school and elementary school providing religious and secular education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Elementary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Park View Minyan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
10 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. 10 of the 48 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 YESHIVA DERECH HATORAH ↗
- Who funds TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds TORAS EMES ACADEMY OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA ELEMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW MINYAN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE KOLLEL INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds TASHBAR OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HERITAGE OF GREATER MIAMI ↗
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 Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Diesel Foundation Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jewish Communal Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Saul Schottenstein Foundation C · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · The Jmg Foundation
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 L & Rhoda Lipton Charitable 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.
- Yeshiva Chayei Olam — 16% of income from government
- Yeshiva Elementary 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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