Organization	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]	Organization Tiptree Financial Inc. (Tiptree and, together with its consolidated subsidiaries, collectively, the Company, or We) is a Maryland Corporation that was incorporated on March 19, 2007. Until July 1, 2013, Tiptree operated under the name Care Investment Trust Inc. (which, for the period prior to July 1, 2013, we refer to as Care Inc.). Tiptree is a diversified holding company which conducts its operations through Tiptree Operating Company, LLC (the Operating Company). Tiptree’s primary focus is on five reporting segments: insurance and insurance services, specialty finance, real estate, asset management, and corporate and other. Tiptree’s Class A Common Stock is traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol “TIPT”. As of December 31, 2015, Tiptree owns, directly or indirectly, approximately 81% of the assets of Operating Company with the remaining 19% held by non-controlling shareholders through their interests in Tiptree Financial Partners, L.P. (TFP). The limited partners of TFP (other than Tiptree itself) have the ability to exchange TFP partnership units for Tiptree Class A common stock at a rate of 2.798 shares of Class A common stock per partnership unit. The percentage of TFP (and therefore Operating Company) owned by Tiptree may increase in the future to the extent TFP’s limited partners choose to exchange their limited partnership units of TFP for Class A common stock of Tiptree.

Organization

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]

Organization

Tiptree Financial Inc. (Tiptree and, together with its consolidated subsidiaries, collectively, the Company, or We) is a Maryland Corporation that was incorporated on March 19, 2007. Until July 1, 2013, Tiptree operated under the name Care Investment Trust Inc. (which, for the period prior to July 1, 2013, we refer to as Care Inc.). Tiptree is a diversified holding company which conducts its operations through Tiptree Operating Company, LLC (the Operating Company). Tiptree’s primary focus is on five reporting segments: insurance and insurance services, specialty finance, real estate, asset management, and corporate and other. Tiptree’s Class A Common Stock is traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol “TIPT”.

As of December 31, 2015, Tiptree owns, directly or indirectly, approximately 81% of the assets of Operating Company with the remaining 19% held by non-controlling shareholders through their interests in Tiptree Financial Partners, L.P. (TFP). The limited partners of TFP (other than Tiptree itself) have the ability to exchange TFP partnership units for Tiptree Class A common stock at a rate of 2.798 shares of Class A common stock per partnership unit. The percentage of TFP (and therefore Operating Company) owned by Tiptree may increase in the future to the extent TFP’s limited partners choose to exchange their limited partnership units of TFP for Class A common stock of Tiptree.