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The Lynne and Howard Halpern Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Lynne and Howard Halpern Family Foundation Inc

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.

$809k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$754k
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 2025.

Health$2.2MReligion$1.6MInternational$418kHuman Services$135kPhilanthropy$121kAnimals$51kArts & Culture$27kEmployment$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $250k+1 grant · $754k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JARC$753,950
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY$18,400
LEVIS JCC$7,600
THE MORGAN PRESSEL FOUNDATION - MORGAN & FRIENDS$7,000
THE TEMPLE$5,800
ISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION USA$5,000
RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$3,000
TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE CARE$3,000
MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,000
DANCE MEDIA FOUNDATION INC$1,000
BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$500
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA- JEWISH COMMUNITY OF JAPAN$500
JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS$500
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$300
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JARC: $754k → 8%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $500 → 13%JARC: $650k → 8%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $500 → 13%JARC: $211k → 8%JARC: $56k → 8%JARC: $52k → 8%JARC: $23k → 8%JARC: $23k → 8%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $24k → 14%JARC: $5k → 8%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $15k → 14%JARC: $200 → 8%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA - PACESETTER 2023: $15k → 14%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $8k → 11%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 14%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $7k → 11%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $7k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $3k → 14%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $2k → 11%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $100 → 11%LEVIS JCC: $8k → 11%LEVIS JCC: $7k → 11%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER: $100 → 13%LEVIS JCC: $1k → 11%ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%LEVIS JCC: $600 → 11%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $500 → 13%BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%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

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 23 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
40

Total granted

$4.4M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+41%

Still filing today

70%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $259k · revenue +37%
  • MJ
    MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +54%
  • MP
    Morgan Pressel Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • GA
    GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +235%
  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
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
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
2
Jgs Administrative Services Inc

To provide administrative support to jgs lifecare corporation.

Health
3
Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Inc

The organization's mission is to provide individuals throughout the greater boston area with the highest level of skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living services without regard to ability to pay. the goal is to ensure both…

Health
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
Jgs Lifecare Corporation

Non-profit organization dedicated to improving the physical, spiritual and emotional health of individuals and families.

Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
8
Chelsea Jewish Community Inc

The organization's mission is to provide the highest level of home health and hospice care services without regard of an individual's ability to pay.

Health
9
Chelsea Jewish Charitable Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in fundraising activities and provide support services to sponsor related non-profit entities which are engaged to enrich the life of each of their residents and program participants, so that each…

Health
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
Jewish Nursing Home of Western Massachusetts Inc

To care for the frail, elderly and infirmed according to jewish traditions.

Human Services
12
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dance Media 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

47 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. 47 of the 71 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
35/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TEMPLE: $1,608,675 · OtherTHE TEMPLEBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL: $400,500 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISRAELJEWISH FEDERATION OF PB COUNTY: $81,000 · Other+37 more: $120,184 · Other+37 moreJARC: $1,772,793 · Human ServicesJARCMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $80,359 · Human Services+7 more: $45,150 · Human ServicesBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $259,357 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc: $37,550 · Health+7 more: $12,510 · HealthGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY: $50,000 · Animals+1 more: $700 · AnimalsJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $36,400 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,600 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$2,210,359Human Services$1,898,302Health$359,417Animals$50,700Philanthropy$40,400International$17,100Civil Rights$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJARC: $1,772,793 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $259,357 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $80,359 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc: $37,550 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $36,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $23,470 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION (USA) CORP: $20,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $17,080 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Curetivity Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $3,480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Israel Fund: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR QUALITY GROWTH INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vi and Milton Weinstein Hospice Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $100 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 Billi Marcus Foun…Ron and Lisa Brill Ch…The Marcus Foundation…The Frank Family Foun…The Scharff Foundatio…The Zaban Foundation …Barton and Shirley We…Hertz Douglas J Famil…Raymond Zimmerman Fam…Luci and Stan Sunshin…The Community Foundat…Jewish Federation of …
The Billi Marcus Foundation IncGA28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · The Scharff Foundation Inc · The Zaban Foundation Inc · Barton and Shirley Weisman Foundation Inc · Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation · Raymond Zimmerman Family Foundation · Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 Lynne and Howard Halpern 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 71 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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