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Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$635k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
80
Grants FY2025
80
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$140,000
Organizations funded a year
80 to 86
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
23
Total assets, FY2025
$4.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving78$629k8%
FY202480$663k6%
FY202381$485k9%
FY202281$395k21%
FY202186$368k16%
FY202082$401kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$838kArts & Culture$742kEducation$674kReligion$375kAnimals$95kEnvironment$56kHuman Services$36kEmployment$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc$330,00060%
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc$325,00061%
Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc$185,00062%
St Katherines Greek Orthodox Church$182,5006n/a
National Gallery of Art$135,00060%
Friends of the Library of Congress$120,0006n/a
Deep Springs Corporation$111,00061%
St John's College$99,00060%
Chautauqua Institution$57,50060%
Augustine Literacy Project - Triangle$55,000432%
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All grantees of Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc$330,00060%
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc$325,00061%
Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc$185,00062%
St Katherines Greek Orthodox Church$182,5006n/a
National Gallery of Art$135,00060%
Friends of the Library of Congress$120,0006n/a
Deep Springs Corporation$111,00061%
St John's College$99,00060%
Chautauqua Institution$57,50060%
Augustine Literacy Project - Triangle$55,000432%
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc$47,50060%
Chautauqua Foundation Inc$47,50030%
University of the Cumberlands Inc$36,50060%
Dickinson College$30,00060%
International Crane Foundation Inc$30,00060%
Bat Conservation International$30,00060%
Tidelines Institute$22,50032%
Best Friends Animal Society$22,50060%
Intermountain Planned Parenthood$20,00020%
Indiana University Foundation$17,00050%
Steel Magnolia Moms$14,00053%
International Association of Women Judges$13,50040%
Remote Area Medical$13,50060%
Maya Educational Foundation$13,50060%
Samaritan Inns Inc$13,00060%
House of Ruth$12,00060%
Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation$11,50040%
N Street Village Inc$10,50060%
Appalachian Trail Conservancy$10,00060%
Falls Church Education Foundation$8,00051%
Catching the Dream$7,50051%
The Unity Club$7,00061%
Yosemite Foundation$6,50060%
Yale University$6,2504n/a
Zion Canyon Mesa$5,75040%
Shenandoah National Park Trust$5,50060%
Yellowstone Forever$5,25020%
National Building Museum$5,00050%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc$5,00010%
122 East 66th Street Foundation Inc$4,55061%
The English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates$4,00060%
New Haven Colony Historical Society$4,00040%
The Rome Chamber Music Festival Inc$4,00060%
The Phillips Collection$3,60060%
Paul Sherwen Project Inc$3,50051%
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club$3,50060%
The Washington Ballet$3,26060%
Smithsonian Institution$3,10060%
National Aquarium Inc$3,00030%
Exotic Feline Rescue Center$3,00060%
Young Concert Artists Inc$3,00060%
Indiana University School of Medicine$3,0001n/a
Friends Without a Border$2,60060%
The Arete Project$2,50011%
Virginia Opera Association Inc$2,25050%
Cornwall Cemetery Association$2,1506n/a
Conservation Nation$2,00020%
Chautauqua Dance Circle Inc$1,75060%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$1,70060%
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc$1,65060%
The Frick Collection$1,63550%
The Shakespeare Theatre$1,60060%
The National Museum of Women in the Arts$1,42550%
Yale University$1,0001n/a
Lost Dog Rescue Foundation$1,00010%
Animal Welfare League of Arlington$1,00010%
American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation$1,00010%
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts$95030%
Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway Inc$90030%
Georgetown University$60020%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$60020%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$60020%
Mary Riley Styles Public Library Foundation Inc$55020%
Washington English Center$50010%
The Friends of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Inc$50010%
Northern Virginia Intergroup Inc$30010%
Elizabeth Seton High School$3001n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$25010%
The Pierpont Morgan Library$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($787k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc: $330,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc: $325,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia Inc: $185,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDeep Springs Corporation: $111,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSt John's College: $99,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChautauqua Institution: $57,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAugustine Literacy Project - Triangle: $55,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $47,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChautauqua Foundation Inc: $47,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of the Cumberlands Inc: $36,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDickinson College: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Crane Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBat Conservation International: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTidelines Institute: $22,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSteel Magnolia Moms: $14,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetInternational Association of Women Judges: $13,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRemote Area Medical: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaya Educational Foundation: $13,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSamaritan Inns Inc: $13,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHouse of Ruth: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKappa Kappa Gamma Foundation: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetN Street Village Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Trail Conservancy: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFalls Church Education Foundation: $8,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCatching the Dream: $7,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Unity Club: $7,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetYosemite Foundation: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetZion Canyon Mesa: $5,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetShenandoah National Park Trust: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Building Museum: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget122 East 66th Street Foundation Inc: $4,550 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates: $4,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNew Haven Colony Historical Society: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rome Chamber Music Festival Inc: $4,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Phillips Collection: $3,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPaul Sherwen Project Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPotomac Appalachian Trail Club: $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Washington Ballet: $3,260 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $3,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Aquarium Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetExotic Feline Rescue Center: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Concert Artists Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 72.

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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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC19.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Ibm International Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Give Back Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc reported 80 grants totaling $634,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 80 and 86 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Arts & Culture (25%), Education (23%).
Who are Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc ($330k), Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc ($325k), Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc ($185k).
Does Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area, Ibm International Foundation.
Where is Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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