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The Limpe Foundation

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.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$472kEducation$175kHealth$14kReligion$6k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$29,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARAMOOR$30,000
MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA$29,000
GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE$11,000
TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE PEARLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM: $11k → 17%WE STAND WITH CHRIST: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $5k → 14%ICAP FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 14%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $107k → 9%ST MARY CHURCH: $1k → 17%GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE: $11k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $53k → 9%MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $55k → 17%Greenwich Emergency Medical Service Incorporated: $1k → 9%TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $53k → 9%MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $29k → 17%GREENWICH LIBRARY: $50k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $50k → 9%MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $10k → 17%GREENWICH LIBRARY: $50k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $30k → 9%GREENWICH LIBRARY: $25k → 9%TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $25k → 9%CARAMOOR: $25k → 9%CARAMOOR: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$609k · 5 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$609k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+22%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • CC
    Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $368k · revenue -58%
  • TG
    THE GREENWICH LIBRARY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $125k · revenue -66%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $94k · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +166%
  • THE WINDWARD SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +63%
  • WS
    We Stand With Christ Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
7
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
8
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greenwich Library and the most unlike its peers is Icap Foundation Inc. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $367,660 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts IncMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA — $94,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA+1 more — $10,500 · Arts & CultureTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY — $125,000 · EducationTHE GREENWICH LIBRARYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY O…THE WINDWARD SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL+1 more — $5,000 · EducationGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC — $12,000 · OtherTRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA — $10,000 · OtherWe Stand With Christ Inc — $5,000 · OtherICAP FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · OtherST MARY CHURCH — $1,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$472,160Education$165,000Other$29,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $367,660 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY — $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA — $94,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNY11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Limpe 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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