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Thom and Connie Lipari Family 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.

$468k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$463k13%
FY202314$450k29%
FY202211$266k0%
FY202113$347k8%
FY202016$280k31%
FY201910$190k0%
FY201811$151k9%
FY201714$155kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$616kEducation$595kHousing & Shelter$350kFood & Nutrition$335kPhilanthropy$233kRecreation & Sports$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kYouth Development$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Celani Family Foundation Inc$208,00084%
Covenant House Illinois Inc$185,00081%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$180,00080%
Grace Centers of Hope$170,00080%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$155,00080%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$130,00080%
De la Salle Collegiate$79,8003n/a
Brilliant Detroit$25,00010%
Covenant House Michigan$22,50020%
United Way of North Carolina$20,00010%
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All grantees of Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Celani Family Foundation Inc$208,00084%
Covenant House Illinois Inc$185,00081%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$180,00080%
Grace Centers of Hope$170,00080%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$155,00080%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$130,00080%
De la Salle Collegiate$79,8003n/a
Brilliant Detroit$25,00010%
Covenant House Michigan$22,50020%
United Way of North Carolina$20,00010%
Right to Life of Michigan Educ Fund$19,00050%
Alternatives for Girls$10,00020%
Beaumont Health Foundation$10,00010%
Henry Ford Health System$10,00010%
Right to Life of Michigan$9,00030%
Vista Maria$5,00010%
Humble Design Inc$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCelani Family Foundation Inc: $208,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetCovenant House Illinois Inc: $185,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetGleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan: $180,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGrace Centers of Hope: $170,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $155,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBrilliant Detroit: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCovenant House Michigan: $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of North Carolina: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRight to Life of Michigan Educ Fund: $19,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAlternatives for Girls: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBeaumont Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenry Ford Health System: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRight to Life of Michigan: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVista Maria: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation

How much does Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation give?
Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $468,457 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Education (26%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
Who are Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Celani Family Foundation Inc ($208k), Covenant House Illinois Inc ($185k), Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan ($180k).
Does Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation based?
Thom and Connie Lipari Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 28 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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