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ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being GORDON FOUNDATION BERNARD M GORDON ET AL TRUSTEES ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$24M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Robert I Lappin Charitable Foundation does

Program

To fund charitable programs

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($759k) Expenses 100 ($456k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 168 ($1.3M) Expenses 95 ($432k) Net assets 116 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 1577 ($12M) Expenses 168 ($768k) Net assets 564 ($13M)2020 Revenue 55 ($414k) Expenses 169 ($772k) Net assets 711 ($17M)2021 Revenue 1518 ($12M) Expenses 247 ($1.1M) Net assets 1099 ($26M)2022 Revenue -143 ($-1086109) Expenses 294 ($1.3M) Net assets 854 ($20M)2023 Revenue 173 ($1.3M) Expenses 298 ($1.4M) Net assets 966 ($23M)2024 Revenue 198 ($1.5M) Expenses 314 ($1.4M) Net assets 1036 ($24M)
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Revenue (198)Expenses (314)Net assets (1036)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.7M to $13M (+386%).

$2.4M
$2.7M
$13M
$17M
$26M
$20M
$23M
$24M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
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1

From the IRS filings of ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being GORDON FOUNDATION BERNARD M GORDON ET AL TRUSTEES ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
GORDON FOUNDATION BERNARD M GORDON ET AL TRUSTEES is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROBERT I LAPPIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing