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Robert E Tipton Jr 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Memphis University School | $200,000 |
| Gordie Foundation | $28,977 |
| Hutchison School | $25,000 |
| Trinity Episcopal Church of Pine Bluff | $15,000 |
| Brooks Museum of Art | $5,000 |
| TN Shakespeare Company | $5,000 |
| Tucker Hipps Foundation | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Turning Point Ministries | $5,000 |
| Delta Waterfowl | $2,500 |
| Germantown Performing Arts Center | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 5% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA3× · 2018–2021 · $459k
- MUMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $386k · revenue +31%
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH2× · 2022–2023 · $91k
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $216k
- SPSECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $20k
- DUDUKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Leading students, in partnership with Christian families, to know Christ and make Him known through rigorous academics, challenging athletics, stimulating arts, and servant-hood activities.
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
The university school of jackson, a distinctive college preparatory school, seeks to instill a passion for academic excellence and lifelong learning so each student will reach his/her maximum potential.
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
The tennessee williams theatre company of new orleans is a year-round professional theatre company committed to producing captivating, exciting, and moving plays with a major focus on the works of america's greatest playwright, tennessee…
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Presbyterian day school strives to glorify god by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and men.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Turning Point Counseling Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 18 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
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: Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Lawrence Lewis Foundation · The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145 · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Robert E Tipton Jr Charitable 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.
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