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Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 29
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
ReligionEducationCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$101k50%
FY202412$76k33%
FY202312$59k83%
FY20201$1.0M0%
FY201929$5kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.0MReligion$136kHealth$21kHuman Services$13kCivil Rights$13kCommunity Improvement$7kInternational$7kArts & Culture$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
SD
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Baylor School$1,027,00052%
First Presbyterian Church$64,2004n/a
Alps Road Presbyterian Church$23,5003n/a
The Cancer Foundation Inc$15,0001n/a
Alliance Defending Freedom$12,50020%
Pursuit of Happiness$12,5002n/a
Samaritan's Purse$7,00020%
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc$7,00020%
Oconee Area Resource Council Inc$7,00022%
John T Fontaine Jr Charity Inc$5,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBaylor School: $1,027,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOconee Area Resource Council Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJohn T Fontaine Jr Charity Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPublic School Bible Study Committee: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Northeast Georgia Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlleo Health Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLookout Mountain Conservancy: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChatt Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChambliss Center for Children: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Ministries Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTennessee Aquarium: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethel Bible Village: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Zoo Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chattanooga Public Library Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Educational Society of Chattanooga Tennessee Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSiskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Orange Grove Center Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN33× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · Hamico Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Tucker Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc

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.

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About Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation

How much does Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation give?
Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $100,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Religion (11%), Health (2%).
Who are Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Baylor School ($1.0M), First Presbyterian Church ($64k), Alps Road Presbyterian Church ($24k).
Does Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, Benwood Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc.
Where is Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation based?
Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 51 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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