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The Gerard and Patricia Hipp Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$311k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$473kArts & Culture$144kHealth$138kEducation$133kHuman Services$61kInternational$57kPhilanthropy$36kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
St Peter the Apostle Catholic Church$10,000
Abigail Pregnancy Services$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boy's Town: $200 → 12%Boy's Town: $200 → 12%Boy's Town: $200 → 12%Boys Town: $100 → 12%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

ND
IL
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$854k · 50 repeat orgs$305k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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30

Total granted

$854k
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • NA
    NORWALK ARTS CENTER LLC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +368%
  • WC
    WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +183%
  • ME
    MONSIGNOR EDWARD C DUNN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • CO
    Congregation of Holy Cross US Provi
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • FF
    FISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -51%
  • SF
    Society for the Propagation of the
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

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John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
2
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
3
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
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
7
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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8
University of Northwestern - St Paul

See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…

Education
9
Carlow University

See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…

Education
10
Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio

The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 90 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
23/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Living Christ Campaign: $250,000 · OtherLiving Christ CampaignCongregation of Holy Cross US Provi: $100,000 · OtherCongregation of Holy Cross US ProviNORWALK ARTS CENTER LLC: $89,570 · OtherNORWALK ARTS CENTER LLCFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSociety for the Propagation of the: $50,000 · OtherAbigail Pregnancy Services: $37,500 · OtherSt Vincent de Paul: $35,700 · Other+57 more: $334,095 · Other+57 moreWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $52,000 · EducationASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · EducationFIRELANDS CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE FCEDO: $5,500 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR NORTHERN OH CHAPTER: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $1,600 · EducationFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $14,300 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $13,475 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,400 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $2,500 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalRENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,800 · Arts & CultureFIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC: $5,600 · Arts & CultureBUCKEYE IMAGINATION MUSEUM: $1,737 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $400 · Arts & CultureCOVENANT HOUSE: $14,900 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,400 · Human Services+1 more: $700 · Human ServicesTHE VISUAL BUCKET LIST FOUNDATION: $8,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 · Health33 FOREVER INC: $2,000 · HealthWHITNEY FIELD IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO: $738 · Recreation & Sports
Other$946,865Education$73,100International$44,175Arts & Culture$38,537Human Services$27,000Health$18,500Recreation & Sports$10,738

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORWALK ARTS CENTER LLC: $89,570 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $52,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFISHER-TITUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMONSIGNOR EDWARD C DUNN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $21,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetRENAISSANCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $14,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $14,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $13,475 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWHITNEY FIELD IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNORWALK AREA FOOD BANK: $9,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VISUAL BUCKET LIST FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetPARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC: $5,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRELANDS CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE FCEDO: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONROEVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY: $4,570 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $4,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ERIE COUNTY: $2,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMANSFIELD NOON OPTIMIST FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget33 FOREVER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBUCKEYE IMAGINATION MUSEUM: $1,737 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Patmos Inc: $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHURON COUNTY GROWTH PARTNERHIP CHARITIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORWALK AREA UNITED FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO: $738 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSupport Our Aging Religious Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $100 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 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 NORWALK AREA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds MONROEVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗

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.

The Twenty First Cent…Geotrac Charitable Fo…The Albert G & Olive …Nisource Charitable F…John F & Doris E Erns…Price-Downey-Buckland…Premier Bank Foundati…Erie County Community…The Cleveland Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…
The Twenty First Century FoundationOH28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gerard and Patricia Hipp Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerard and Patricia Hipp Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 90 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

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 endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home