Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Tippins Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $564k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2024
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 86
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $384k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Tippins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 85 | $564k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $539k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $529k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $517k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $536k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $562k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $140,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Brother's Brother Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Trade Institute of Pittsburgh | $75,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Pittsburgh Opera Inc | $74,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Light of Life Ministries Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Eco-Soap Bank | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Visability | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| No Dog Left Behind Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 9% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tippins Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Upmc Group · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh
How this is measured
About Tippins Foundation
- How much does Tippins Foundation give?
- Tippins Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $564,476 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 86 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Tippins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (23%), Education (13%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Tippins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($140k), Brother's Brother Foundation ($125k), Trade Institute of Pittsburgh ($75k).
- Does Tippins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tippins Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tippins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
- Where is Tippins Foundation based?
- Tippins Foundation is based in PA.
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