Texas · Private foundation
Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $560,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $2.8M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $2.8M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $2.7M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $2.2M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $2.1M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $1.8M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $2.1M | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Christian University | $2,275,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc | $1,580,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Multipurpose Arena Fort Worth | $1,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Event Facilities Fort Worth Inc | $770,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The Fort Worth Zoological Association | $615,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Saving Hope Foundation | $450,000 | 9 | 16% |
| Cook Children's Medical Center | $375,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fort Worth Museum of Science and History | $325,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Second Stage Theatre Inc | $315,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Humane Society of North Texas | $225,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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.
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How this is measured
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About Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation
- How much does Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation give?
- Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $2,756,667 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (21%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (13%).
- Who are Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Christian University ($2.3M), National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc ($1.6M), Multipurpose Arena Fort Worth ($1.0M).
- Does Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amon G Carter Foundation, Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Bnsf Railway Foundation.
- Where is Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation based?
- Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation is based in TX.
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