Tennessee · Private foundation
Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $534k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 64
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 50 | $534k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $605k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $533k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $570k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $421k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $82k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $360k | 14% |
| FY2017 | 62 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert E Tipton Jr Charitable Foundation | $856,115 | 3 | 97% |
| Project Heal Help to Eat Accept & Live | $174,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Theatre Memphis | $102,540 | 7 | 4% |
| Dixon Gallery and Gardens | $87,800 | 8 | 1% |
| Tennessee Shakespeare Company | $75,625 | 7 | 2% |
| The National Museum of Women in the Arts | $69,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $61,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Memphis University School | $48,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| In Touch Ministries Inc | $38,500 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Plough Foundation · Lawrence Lewis Foundation · The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145 · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Belz Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Self Foundation
How this is measured
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About Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation
- How much does Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation give?
- Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $533,596 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Health (26%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Robert E Tipton Jr Charitable Foundation ($856k), Project Heal Help to Eat Accept & Live ($174k), Theatre Memphis ($103k).
- Does Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Deborah D Tipton Charitable 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 Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Thomas Garrott Foundation.
- Where is Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation based?
- Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation is based in TN.
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