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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.

$299k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$1.1MEducation$463kArts & Culture$10kReligion$5kAnimals$3kOther$897k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

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
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 17%Tucker Hipps Foundation: $5k → 10%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $50k → 22%TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%TN Shakespeare Company: $5k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 11%Delta Waterfowl: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $128k → 8%Gordie Foundation: $29k → 22%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $41k → 22%TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%Germantown Performing Arts Center: $3k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $56k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $640k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $275k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $364k → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $216k → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $90k → 17%Brooks Museum of Art: $5k → 17%SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $20k → 17%Memphis University School: $200k → 17%MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $186k → 17%Carnival Memphis: $5k → 17%HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $52k → 17%Hutchison School: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$1.1M
$241k

Still filing today

40%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureReligionAnimalsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    3× · 2018–2021 · $459k
  • MU
    MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $386k · revenue +31%
  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $91k

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $216k
  • SP
    SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • DU
    DUKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Tupelo Christian Preparatory School

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.

Education
2
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
3
Presbyterian School

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…

Education
4
University School of Jackson

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.

Education
5
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
Collegiate School of Memphis

To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.

Education
7
The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

8
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
9
Harding Academy of Memphis Inc

Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.

Education
10
The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Kings Academy Nashville

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.

Education
12
Presbyterian Day School

Presbyterian day school strives to glorify god by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and men.

Education

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC — $1,093,685 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INCUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $458,936 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIACOMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $216,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $90,800 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION+7 more — $81,477 · Other+7 moreMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $386,436 · EducationMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SC…THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL — $77,000 · EducationTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOLMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTURNING POINT COUNSELING INC — $5,000 · ReligionDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $2,500 · Animals
Philanthropy$1,093,685Other$897,213Education$463,436Arts & Culture$10,000Religion$5,000Animals$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC — $1,093,685 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $386,436 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL — $77,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT COUNSELING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Deborah D Tipton Charitable FoundationTN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Robert E Tipton Jr Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert E Tipton Jr Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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