Texas · Private foundation
Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $859k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 5 | $65k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $65k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $55k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $83k | 73% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $90k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $55k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mineral Wells Center of Life | $95,000 | 9 | 11% |
| Palo Pinto Area Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels of Palo Pinto County | $40,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Hope Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Hope Women's Shelter Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Grace House Ministries Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mineral Wells Volunteer Fire Department | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Strawn Volunteer Fire Department | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Palo Pinto Volunteer Fire Department | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mineral Wells Center of Life | $95,000 | 9 | 11% |
| Palo Pinto Area Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels of Palo Pinto County | $40,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Hope Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Hope Women's Shelter Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Grace House Ministries Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mineral Wells Volunteer Fire Department | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Strawn Volunteer Fire Department | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Palo Pinto Volunteer Fire Department | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Lone Camp Volunteer Fire Department | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Palo Pinto Volunteer Fire Dept | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Santo Volunteer Fire and EMS Dept | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Brazos Volunteer Fire Department | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Gordon Volunteer Fire Department | $2,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Possum Kingdom Westside Vol Fire Dept | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation supplied at peak.
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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
Compare Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation with peer funders
About Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation
- How much does Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation give?
- Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (35%), Human Services (27%), Philanthropy (25%).
- Who are Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mineral Wells Center of Life ($95k), Palo Pinto Area Foundation Inc ($40k), Meals on Wheels of Palo Pinto County ($40k).
- Does Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tartaglino Richards Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation based?
- Virginia Lee Upham and Chester R Upham Jr Foundation is based in TX.
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