· Private foundation
The Gerard and Patricia Hipp Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of The Gerard and Patricia Hipp Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Living Christ Campaign | $150,000 |
| Norwalk Arts Center LLC | $50,000 |
| Westside Christian Academy | $15,000 |
| Monsignor Edward C Dunn Foundation for Education | $13,000 |
| The Ashbrook Center at Ashland University | $12,000 |
| Mercy Ships | $11,475 |
| Abigail Pregnancy Services | $10,000 |
| St Peter the Apostle Catholic Church | $10,000 |
| Norwalk Catholic Schools | $8,475 |
| St Vincent de Paul | $5,000 |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $5,000 |
| Visual Bucket List Foundation | $3,500 |
| Shriner's Hospital for Children | $3,200 |
| St Paul Catholic Church | $3,000 |
| Covenant House | $2,600 |
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 (FY17–25, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- NANORWALK ARTS CENTER LLC4× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +368%
- WCWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY6× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +183%
- MEMONSIGNOR EDWARD C DUNN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- COCongregation of Holy Cross US Provione grant, 2022 · $100k
- FFFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -51%
- SFSociety for the Propagation of theone grant, 2022 · $50k
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 Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Norwalk Area Food Bank. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
44 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. 44 of the 90 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 NORWALK ARTS CENTER LLC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONSIGNOR EDWARD C DUNN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY FIELD IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORWALK AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE VISUAL BUCKET LIST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE FCEDO ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: The Twenty First Century Foundation · Geotrac Charitable Foundation · The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · John F & Doris E Ernsthausen Foundation · Price-Downey-Buckland Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Erie County Community Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment 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 The Gerard and Patricia Hipp 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 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.