· Private foundation
The Dorothy L Lappin Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k15 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOAFI SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $12,995 |
| CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| EMERSON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| DREYFOOS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH DRAMA WORKS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SEA SHEPARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| BEHIND THE BOOK FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER | $2,000 |
| EW FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $1,000 |
| SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES | $1,000 |
| HEALING THE CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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 The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healing the Children - Florida Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EW Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds MAX PLANCK FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING THE CHILDREN - FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROBBIE LEVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEBBIE'S DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Dorothy L Lappin 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.
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 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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