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Vincent and Lois Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust at a glance

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Vincent and Lois Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust

The VINCENT AND LOIS TIPPMANN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST is closing.

$200k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Religion$849kFood & Nutrition$103kHuman Services$75kHealth$35kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHNS THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHUR$80,000
OUR LADY OF GOOD HOPE$30,000
BISHOP DWENGER$20,000
KINGDOM BUILDERS$16,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$10,000
A MOTHER'S HOPE$10,000
MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY$10,000
FRANCISCAN CENTER$10,000
REDEMPTION HOUSE$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $18k → 12%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $10k → 12%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $10k → 12%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $8k → 12%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $7k → 12%A MOTHER'S HOPE: $20k → 12%A MOTHER'S HOPE: $10k → 12%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $25k → 12%MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 12%MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 12%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $10k → 12%MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 12%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $10k → 12%MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 12%MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 12%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.
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.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$1.0M
$42k

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionOther
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

  • HK
    HIS KINGDOM BUILDERS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +61%
  • FC
    FRANCISCAN CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $53k · revenue +53%
  • IC
    INNER CITY HOPE CORPORATION D/B/A MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS BESANSCON CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • GP
    GIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • DO
    DIOCESE OF FT WAYNE SOUTH BEND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHNS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $490,000 · OtherST JOHNS CATHOLIC CHURCHBISHOP DWENGER HIGH SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherBISHOP DWENGER HIGH SCHOOLOUR LADY OF GOOD HOPE: $70,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF GOOD HOPEANDREW'S CENTER INC: $35,000 · Other+4 more: $41,977 · Other+4 moreFRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $53,450 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN CENTER …INNER CITY HOPE CORPORATION D/B/A MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY: $50,000 · Human ServicesINNER CITY HOPE CO…FORT WAYNE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesFORT WAYNE SOCIETY…A MOTHER'S HOPE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesA MOTHER'S HOPE IN…HIS KINGDOM BUILDERS INC: $60,000 · ReligionHIS KINGDOM…Redemption House Ministry Inc: $46,850 · ReligionRedemption …
Other$786,977Human Services$178,450Religion$106,850

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIS KINGDOM BUILDERS INC: $60,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetFRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $53,450 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetINNER CITY HOPE CORPORATION D/B/A MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY: $50,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetRedemption House Ministry Inc: $46,850 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFORT WAYNE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetANDREW'S CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetA MOTHER'S HOPE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Charlie Tippmann Foun…Mary Cross Tippmann F…Community Foundation …Our Sunday Visitor IncM E Raker Foundation …American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charlie Tippmann Foundation Charitable TrustIN24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vincent and Lois Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vincent and Lois Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Vincent and Lois Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust 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 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $261k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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