Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust
Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 25-6134327. Reported 129 grants totalling $2,373,010 to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $7,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,953 and $15,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $220,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva Schools | Pittsburgh, PA | $412,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $320,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends of United Hatzala | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Classrooms Without Borders | Pittsburgh, PA | $165,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Hazalah | Jerusalem | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lubavitch Center | Pittsburgh, PA | $130,307 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bnei Emunah Chabad | Pittsburgh, PA | $105,123 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ohr Chadash | Denver, CO | $92,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kollel Jewish Learning Center | Pittsburgh, PA | $68,273 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hillel Academy | Pittsburgh, PA | $62,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chabad of the South Hills | Pittsburgh, PA | $45,947 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aleph Institute | Pittsburgh, PA | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Camp Gan Israel Fc | Pittsburgh, PA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chabad of Monroeville | Monroeville, PA | $37,290 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chabad of Squirrel Hill | Pittsburgh, PA | $33,302 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chabad on Campus | Pittsburgh, PA | $29,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chabad of Psu | State College, PA | $29,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Congregation Kether Torah | Pittsburgh, PA | $27,043 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pz Special Fund | Pittsburgh, PA | $26,153 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Israel of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,102 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Leket Israel | Teaneck, NJ | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temple David Rabbi's Mitzva Fund | Monroeville, PA | $24,585 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Camp Gan Israel Bnei Emunah Chabad | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Keren Rachaim Fund | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Temple Emanuel of South Hills | Pittsburgh, PA | $18,453 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Temple Ohav Shalom Rabbi's Disc Fund | Allison Park, PA | $16,620 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camp Gan Israel Chabad of Squirrel Hill | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chasdei Avos | Monroe, NY | $14,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friendship Circle | West Bloomfiedl, MI | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Day School | Pittsburgh, PA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Ne Eman Foundation USA | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gemilas Chesed Charity Fund | White Oak, PA | $9,377 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beth El Congregation | Pittsburgh, PA | $8,565 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Shaare Torah Congregation | Pittsburgh, PA | $7,170 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friendship Circle | Pittsburgh, PA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Temple Ohav Shalom | Allison Park, PA | $6,200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Friends of Natal Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of One Family | Teaneck, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ncsy | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ncsy | Pittsburgh, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Pfap Foundation Inc | Wellington, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Zaka Tel Aviv | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (adat Shalom) | Cheswick, PA | $4,050 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Friends of Leket Israel | Raanana | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kesser Torah | Pittsburgh, PA | $3,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Jewish Spark | Pittsburgh, PA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Temple David | Monroeville, PA | $2,550 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chabad of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $2,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Congregation Poale Zedeck | Pittsburgh, PA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beth El Congregation of the South Hills | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rabbi's Discretionary Fund | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,650 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Congregation Beth Shalom | Monroe, NY | $1,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Martin Pear Jewish Community Center | Scottsdale, AZ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Congregation Beth Shalom | Pittsburgh, PA | $700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rodef Shalom Congregation | Pittsburgh, PA | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Parkway Jewish Center | Pittsburgh, PA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | Duquesne, PA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
30 of 60 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 69%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Bnei Emunah Chabad
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 31 | $539,900 | $6,600 |
| 2022 | 29 | $580,350 | $7,400 |
| 2023 | 36 | $676,100 | $7,600 |
| 2024 | 33 | $576,660 | $6,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 66% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1900 Murray Avenue 203, Pittsburgh, PA, 15217. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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