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The Limpe Foundation at a glance

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The Limpe 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.

$124k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$472kEducation$175kHealth$14kReligion$6k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$570k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA$62,000
CARAMOOR$44,400
THE ASIA FOUNDATION$5,005
TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA$5,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - ICAP$5,000
FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE$1,000
FRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%THE ASIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE PEARLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM: $11k → 17%FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 18%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - ICAP: $5k → 14%WE STAND WITH CHRIST: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $5k → 14%ICAP FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 14%TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $107k → 9%ST MARY CHURCH: $1k → 17%GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE: $11k → 9%TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $53k → 9%MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $62k → 17%Greenwich Emergency Medical Service Incorporated: $1k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $53k → 9%MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $55k → 17%GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE: $1k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $50k → 9%MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $29k → 17%GREENWICH LIBRARY: $50k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $44k → 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%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CARAMOOR: $25k → 9%CARAMOOR: $25k → 9%CARAMOOR: $25k → 9%FRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER: $1k → 9%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$721k · 5 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$721k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+22%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
EducationArts & 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

  • CC
    Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $412k · revenue -58%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $156k · revenue ×14
  • TG
    THE GREENWICH LIBRARY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $125k · revenue -66%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +166%
  • THE WINDWARD SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +63%
  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +22%
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
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
2
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
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

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
Yale University

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

Education
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $412,060 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts IncMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $156,000 · 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 UNIVERS…THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL+2 more: $6,000 · EducationTRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $15,000 · OtherGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $13,000 · OtherWe Stand With Christ Inc: $5,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - ICAP: $5,000 · OtherICAP FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Other+2 more: $2,000 · OtherTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $5,005 · International
Arts & Culture$578,560Education$166,000Other$41,500International$5,005

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $412,060 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $156,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 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 budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $5,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 16 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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