· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $35,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BAYLOR SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| ALPS ROAD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,000 |
| JOHN FONTAINE JR CHARITY | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK | $5,000 |
| RENEW MENS DISCIPLESHIP MINISTRY | $2,500 |
| PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS | $2,500 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA | $2,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TIVOLI | $2,500 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| OCONEE AREA RESOURCE COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| MCR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $125) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BSBAYLOR SCHOOL5× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +23%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +18%- OAOCONEE AREA RESOURCE COUNCIL INC2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- CCCALVARY CHURCH CHATTANOOGAone grant, 2024 · $8k
- LBLAKESIDE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $3k
- CCCALVARY CHAPELone grant, 2023 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
We guide and encourage donors who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. our mission is carried out through four primary initiatives: providing donor-advised funds, inspiring and encouraging generosity within families along the…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oconee Area Resource Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OCONEE AREA RESOURCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN T FONTAINE JR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY OF CLARKE COUNTY AND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Aquarium ↗
- Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Beth and Thomas a Lupton Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.