· Private foundation
The Kevin Lipton Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUEEN OF HEARTS | $20,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| FIXNATION | $10,000 |
| THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $10,000 |
| HARMONY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| IAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KCHUNG RADIO | $1,000 |
| WEST HOLLYWOOD SHERRIFF'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| LA COUNTY POLICE CANINE ASSOCIATION | $550 |
| PICO BAIS MEDRASH | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Kevin Lipton Family Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 67% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- QOQUEEN OF HEARTS THERAPUTIC RIDING CENTER4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +30% · 58% of their budget
- TBTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +56%
- HPHarmony Project7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- VVIDASone grant, 2017 · $67k · revenue -9% · 33% of their budget
- WWARRIORSone grant, 2021 · $24k
- UHUCLA HEALTH SCIENCES DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Friends of Orange County's Homeless Pets (FOCHP) is a licensed 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to make homeless and unwanted pets more adoptable and provide them the opportunity to find lifelong families. This mission…
To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.
Community Animal Treatment Center (CATC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to delivering high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter (HQHVSN) services for community cats and pets, with a focus on supporting low-income…
Project Street Vet empowers veterinary teams to deliver professional, non-judgmental medical care & support to pet families experiencing homelessness and housing vulnerability.
Cj3 foundation provides services, support, and advocacy to united states military service members, veterans/disabled veterans, law enforcement, and emergency responders who need/require assistance, and then connecting them with resources…
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
The foundation's mission embodies the character and values of detective wenjian liu, a new york police department detective who was shot and killed in the line of duty in a marked patrol car in december 2014. the foundation strives to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Queen of Hearts Rescue Inc. 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 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 56 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 QUEEN OF HEARTS THERAPUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUEEN OF HEARTS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds VIDAS ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds IAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FixNation Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds STANDISH FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds STARTCARE INC F/K/N START TREATMENT AND RECOVERY CENTE ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Pride Hockey Association ↗
- Who funds ADVANCED INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE & SURGERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE AT FIRST MUTT INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATS IN NEED OF HUMAN CARE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds WEST HOLLYWOOD SHERIFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles County Police Canine Assoc ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE FLATWATER FOUNDATON ↗
- Who funds THE HAWN FOUNDATION ↗
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 Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Kevin Lipton Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 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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