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Lippy Foundation

Warren, OH · EIN 23-7003982. Reported 51 grants totalling $110,820 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$110,820granted, 2021-2024
35organizations funded
25%of grantees funded again the next year
$295,819assets, latest filing

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. Lippy Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $291 and $1,830; the smallest was $32 and the largest $18,840. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
24 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
22 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Israel Tennis & Education CentersDeerfield Beach, FL$40,169332024
Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach CountyBoca Raton, FL$17,000332024
B'nai Torah CongregationBoca Raton, FL$11,416442024
Israel Tennis Centers Foundation IncDeerfield Beach, FL$8,698222022
GivewellOakland, CA$5,000222023
Youngstown Area Jewish FederationYoungstown, OH$5,000112023
American Jewish CommitteeNew York, NY$3,480222023
Temple Beth ShalomNew Albany, OH$3,075222023
Boca Raton Regional Hospital FoundationBoca Raton, FL$3,000222023
Vets Helping HeroesBoca Raton, FL$3,000332024
Encounter ProgramsNew York, NY$1,000112023
Jewish Federation of ColumbusColumbus, OH$1,000112023
Morgan Pressel FoundationDelray Beach, FL$1,000112023
North Coast Land ConservancySeaside, OR$1,000112021
Katz Family Foundation IncPalm Beach, FL$643112024
Actblue Charities IncBoston, MA$500112024
Integrity First for AmericaNew York, NY$500112021
Jewish ColumbusColumbus, OH$500112021
Kaufman CenterNew York, NY$500112021
Play for PinkNew York, NY$500112023
Fire Mountain SchoolArch Cape, OR$456222022
Dana Farber Cancer InstituteWaltham, MA$360112023
HillelWashington, DC$360112023
The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish LearningNew York, NY$360112024
Chautauqua AssemblyChautauqua, NY$311112023
American Humane AssociationWashington, DC$250112021
CARBON180Washington, DC$250112021
Clean Air Task ForceBoston, MA$250112021
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$250112021
Columbus Jewish Day SchoolNew Albany, OH$200112021
Hereditary Neuropathy FoundationNew York, NY$180112021
Levine Family Tennis AcademyHouston, TX$180112021
Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaNew York, NY$180112024
Ruth Rales Jewish Family ServiceBoca Raton, FL$180112021
South Florida PBSBoynton Beach, FL$72222024

11 of 35 (31%) 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 25%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
International Affairs
6 grants
Education
4 grants
Medical Research
3 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
3 grants
Civil Rights
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Environment
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$36,349$500
20224$10,176$2,243
202316$54,828$1,000
20249$9,467$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. 77% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$85K
Ohio
$10K
New York
$7K
California
$5K
Oregon
$1K
Massachusetts
$1K
District of Columbia
$860
Tennessee
$250

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc18 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Lippy Foundation'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: 1620 Niles Cortland Rd Ne Suite B, Warren, OH, 44484. 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.

EIN 23-7003982 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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