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The Kevin Lipton Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$74k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$322kAnimals$219kPhilanthropy$56kArts & Culture$37kYouth Development$24kHuman Services$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUEEN OF HEARTS$20,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION$10,000
THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION$10,000
FIXNATION$10,000
MAKE A WISH$10,000
IAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION$5,000
HARMONY PROJECT$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
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRESH START WOMENS FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $2k → 6%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $500 → 7%FLATWATER FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%INFINITE FLOW DANCE CO: $1k → 14%JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%QUEEN OF HEARTS: $60k → 14%QUEEN OF HEARTS: $30k → 14%QUEEN OF HEARTS: $20k → 14%QUEEN OF HEARTS: $15k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $2k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $1k → 14%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

WA
MN
NY
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
DC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of The Kevin Lipton Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 67%.

The Kevin Lipton Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$510k · 17 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
36

Total granted

$510k
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+23%

Still filing today

59%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • QO
    QUEEN OF HEARTS THERAPUTIC RIDING CENTER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +30% · 58% of their budget
  • TB
    THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +65%
  • HP
    Harmony Project
    7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • V
    VIDAS
    one grant, 2017 · $67k · revenue -9% · 33% of their budget
  • W
    WARRIORS
    one grant, 2021 · $24k
  • STARTCARE INC F/K/N START TREATMENT AND RECOVERY CENTE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +13%
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.

1
Feeding Homeless Felines Foundation
Animals
2
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
3
The Jack Canine Foundation
—
4
Friends of Orange Countys Homeless Pets

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…

Animals
5
600 Million Stray Dogs Need You Corporation

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.

Animals
6
Community Animal Treatment Center

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…

Animals
7
Project Street Vet

Project Street Vet empowers veterinary teams to deliver professional, non-judgmental medical care & support to pet families experiencing homelessness and housing vulnerability.

Animals
8
Pawsibilities Foundation
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9
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
10
CJ3 Foundation

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…

Human Services
11
Companions for Heroes

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.

Human Services
12
Detective Wenjian Liu Foundation Inc

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles; 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.
05the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $82,000 · OtherTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESSVIDAS: $67,000 · OtherVIDASTHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $55,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONMAKE A WISH: $30,000 · OtherMAKE A WISHWARRIORS: $24,000 · OtherWARRIORS+29 more: $61,920 · Other+29 moreQUEEN OF HEARTS THERAPUTIC RIDING CENTER: $125,000 · Human ServicesQUEEN OF HEARTS THERAPU…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $13,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE O…+6 more: $8,750 · Human Services+6 moreQUEEN OF HEARTS RESCUE INC: $110,000 · AnimalsQUEEN OF HEARTS RESC…FixNation Inc: $15,300 · AnimalsFixNation IncLOVE AT FIRST MUTT INC: $4,500 · Animals+1 more: $3,000 · AnimalsIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthSTARTCARE INC F/K/N START TREATMENT AND RECOVERY CENTE: $10,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSTANDISH FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthHarmony Project: $35,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $5,000 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalADVANCED INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE & SURGERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,000 · InternationalSeattle Pride Hockey Association: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$319,920Human Services$146,750Animals$132,800Health$55,000Education$40,000International$17,000Recreation & Sports$6,000

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 budgetQUEEN OF HEARTS THERAPUTIC RIDING CENTER: $125,000 over 4y, 58% of budgetQUEEN OF HEARTS RESCUE INC: $110,000 over 3y, 95% of budgetTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $82,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetVIDAS: $67,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetHarmony Project: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFixNation Inc: $15,300 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTARTCARE INC F/K/N START TREATMENT AND RECOVERY CENTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANDISH FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCED INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE & SURGERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLOVE AT FIRST MUTT INC: $4,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION: $3,600 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST HOLLYWOOD SHERIFF FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAWN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLATWATER FOUNDATON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINFINITE FLOW DANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKCHUNG RADIO: $1,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetJEFFREY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $500 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.

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 Stanley & Joyce B…The Annenberg Foundat…California Community …Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Stanley & Joyce Black Family FoundationCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kevin Lipton Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kevin Lipton Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Kevin Lipton Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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