· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Turning Point Ministries | $5,000 |
| TN Shakespeare Company | $5,000 |
| Brooks Museum of Art | $5,000 |
| Tucker Hipps Foundation | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Germantown Performing Arts Center | $2,500 |
| Delta Waterfowl | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 5% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert E Tipton Jr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E Tipton Jr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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