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The Lipman Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The Lipman Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Lipman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $13M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+14 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCV FOUNDATION | $2,535,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW | $2,500,000 |
| JSRCC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,000,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000,000 |
| VMFA FOUNDATION | $850,000 |
| MAYMONT FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH AHABAH | $250,000 |
| FAISON CENTER | $250,000 |
| VIRGINIA VOICE | $250,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| VIRGINIA HOLOCAUST MUSUEM | $250,000 |
| PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $250,000 |
| DOORWAYS | $250,000 |
| FEEDMORE | $200,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
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 provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Free Clinic of Powhatan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 36 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 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds Virginia Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds HANOVER TAVERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Barnabas Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
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 Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Peachtree House Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr Foundation · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole
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 Lipman 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.
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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