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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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
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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

12
’23
11
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,910,000
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$25M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$5.8MHealth$308kYouth Development$188kRecreation & Sports$178kArts & Culture$41kPhilanthropy$30kInternational$25kHuman Services$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($232k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPoly Prep Country Day School: $2,006,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGarden of Dreams Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPlayers Development Academy: $125,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Brain Tumor Project Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $52,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Allen-Stevenson School: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Israel Education Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGene Spotlight Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Renewal Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSchool of American Ballet Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMan Cave Health Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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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.

About Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation

How much does Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation give?
Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $3,429,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (88%), Health (5%), Youth Development (3%).
Who are Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Poly Prep Country Day School ($2.0M), Garden of Dreams Foundation ($150k), Players Development Academy ($125k).
Does Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation based?
Sandi Feinberg and Tara Lipton Family Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

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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