The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation

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The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation

Q: How much did The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation grant in FY2018?

The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $4,272,230 in its FY2018 IRS filing.

Q: Where is The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation based?

The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation is based in MA.

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.

$4.3M

Granted FY2018

Grants FY2018

States reached

$213k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

65% of The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Broward Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 35 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 35 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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

01What you fund

0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$21MHealth$3.0MHuman Services$2.3MEducation$2.1MArts & Culture$851kFood & Nutrition$850kHousing & Shelter$550kCrime & Legal$540kEmployment$404kOther$5.5M

02FY2018 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k5 grants · $27k
$10k–50k19 grants · $313k
$50k–250k35 grants · $3.9M

$62,163

Median grant

States reached

$81M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$212,500
CAREER SOURCE PALM BEACH COUNTY	$204,000
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$204,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD	$203,000
SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$203,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE PALM BEACHES INC	$200,000
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$192,000
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE	$145,000
THE PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC	$125,000
LORD'S PLACE	$125,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF PBMC	$101,000
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$100,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY	$100,000
UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC	$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE PALM BEACHES & TREASURE COAST	$100,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 36% of The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 76 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

76 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2018, 43 since wound down; 108 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$623k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+76%

Still filing today

84%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

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THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
5× · 2017–2021 · $969k · revenue +88%
FA
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $841k · revenue +49%
PB
PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $520k · revenue +260%

Funded once

CC
Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $108k · revenue +54%
RF
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YROK
one grant, 2017 · $100k
PT
Prime Time Palm Beach County Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $64k · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Suncoast Center Inc

For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…

Health

Southeast Florida Behavioral Health Network Inc

Our mission is a seamless, accessible, recovery-oriented system of behavioral health care driven by consumers, providers, and other stakeholders, in which innovation and collaboration are the norm and diversified financial resources…

Health

The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…

Health

Children's Case Management Organization Inc D/B/a Families First of Pb County

Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.

Environment

Citrus Health Network Inc

To provide primary care and behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in south florida across a broad range of health services and community-based programs; and to oversee the coordinated child welfare system of care…

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Preferred Behavioral Health of Nj Inc

To deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families all the time through a trauma informed care philosophy and approach.

Health

The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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Centerstone of Florida Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health

Mental Health Collaborative of Indian River County Inc

Our mission is to establish a continuum of care for mental health made up of private and public funders, mental health providers and individuals who work in collaboration to increase access, decrease duplication, and facilitate community…

Health

Families First of Palm Beach County Foundation Inc

To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…

Human Services

The Center for Prevention & Counseling

Our mission, since 1973, has been to promote hope, health and recovery among all people by creating an environment that is safe and free from the effects of substance use and addiction. the center provides substance use prevention,…

Health

Child Protection Center Inc

The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bestself Behavioral Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/173

the rest of the field

13%

240,394/1,819,392

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.

05the grantee network

168 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. 168 of the 212 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

159/168

Grantees still filing

120/168

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$20,973,400Other$6,932,498Health$2,997,774Human Services$2,298,948Education$2,112,227Food & Nutrition$850,000Arts & Culture$845,970

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties IncFL64.4× affinity35 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · St Vincent Hospital

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 The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

22get no government money at all

57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

6rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines