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Vincent and Lois Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust
The VINCENT AND LOIS TIPPMANN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST is closing.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of VINCENT AND LOIS TIPPMANN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k8 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHNS THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHUR | $80,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GOOD HOPE | $30,000 |
| BISHOP DWENGER | $20,000 |
| KINGDOM BUILDERS | $16,000 |
| REDEMPTION HOUSE | $10,000 |
| MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| FRANCISCAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| A MOTHER'S HOPE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HKHIS KINGDOM BUILDERS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +61%
- FCFRANCISCAN CENTER INC5× · 2019–2023 · $53k · revenue +53%
- ICINNER CITY HOPE CORPORATION D/B/A MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +184%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS BESANSCON CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
- GPGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- DODIOCESE OF FT WAYNE SOUTH BEND INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 14 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 HIS KINGDOM BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY HOPE CORPORATION D/B/A MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Redemption House Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds A MOTHER'S HOPE 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: Charlie Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust · Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Our Sunday Visitor Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Vincent and Lois Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust 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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