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Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family 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.
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56% of Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
Anchored by a single position — about 96% of reported assets are held in Deutsche Bank.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,910,000 |
| POLY PREP | $1,000,000 |
| GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PLAYER DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR PROJECT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $37,750 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CENTER | $20,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $16,500 |
| THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HINENI HERITAGE CENTER | $5,000 |
| PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY23–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k 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
- PPPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +21%
- PDPLAYERS DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue -19%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $60k
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue -45%
- SCSETH CURRY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Man Cave Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENE SPOTLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MAN CAVE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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