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The Bari Lipp Foundation Inc

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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.1MPhilanthropy$1.2MEducation$969kHealth$498kInternational$326kReligion$255kRecreation & Sports$235kPublic Benefit$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $339k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $580k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,200,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$510,000
OPEN DOORS ORGANIZATION$115,000
NANTUCKET DANCE THEATRE$100,000
NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB$100,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$100,000
CLARK ART INSTITUTE$100,000
WOOSTER SCHOOL$65,000
CROSSROADS SCHOOL$35,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$33,750
A SAFE PLACE$30,000
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$25,000
CARNEGIE HALL$25,000
ETHIOPIA EDUCATION INITIATIVES$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $2k → 10%AYUDA: $1k → 14%OPEN DOORS ORGANIZATION: $115k → 14%OPEN DOORS ORGANIZATION: $115k → 14%OPEN DOORS ORGANIZATION: $115k → 14%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $5k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
OK
AL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 41 repeat orgs$602k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
38

Total granted

$5.1M
$564k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+32%

Still filing today

78%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +52%
  • SA
    STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +123%
  • Williams College
    4× · 2020–2024 · $430k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • II
    ICIVICS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -34%
  • NG
    NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +179%
  • UM
    United Methodist Men Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
6
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School of American Ballet Inc; the most unlike its peers is One-Revolution Foundation. 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

64 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. 64 of the 89 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
45/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $2,142,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $500,000 · Arts & CultureSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTENANTUCKET DANCE THEATER: $200,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET DANCE THEATER+17 more: $287,320 · Arts & Culture+17 moreTHE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 · OtherTHE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $148,250 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUEWOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION: $120,000 · OtherCROSSROADS SCHOOL: $105,000 · OtherNantucket Cottage Hospital: $100,000 · Other+39 more: $608,117 · Other+39 moreWilliams College: $430,000 · EducationWilliams Coll…ICIVICS INC: $200,000 · EducationICIVICS INCUCLA FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…ETHIOPIA EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC: $50,000 · EducationETHIOPIA EDUC…THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $32,500 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $29,700 · Education+8 more: $74,000 · Education+8 moreOpen Doors Organization: $345,000 · Human Services+4 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesGIVE2ASIA: $302,718 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 · InternationalNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB INC: $225,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $9,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$3,129,820Other$2,281,367Education$871,200Human Services$365,000International$317,718Recreation & Sports$236,500Philanthropy$50,000

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 budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $2,142,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWilliams College: $430,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Doors Organization: $345,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $302,718 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetICIVICS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNANTUCKET DANCE THEATER: $200,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetWOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION: $120,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetETHIOPIA EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFOCUS FOR A FUTURE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDANCING DREAMS: $30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $29,700 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBALLETCOLLECTIVE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE BALANCHINE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDaily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 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 NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds Open Doors Organization ↗
  • Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ICIVICS INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET DANCE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ETHIOPIA EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS FOR A FUTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds DANCING DREAMS ↗
  • Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLETCOLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗

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 FundThe Ayco Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…FjcMorgan Stanley Global…Nantucket Golf Club F…Community Foundation …The Hartman Family Fo…National Philanthropi…The Ford FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Foun…
Jewish Communal FundNY16.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fjc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · The Hartman Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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 The Bari Lipp Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bari Lipp Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • New Jersey Ballet Company Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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How do I get to The Bari Lipp Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Bari Lipp Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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.

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 89 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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