· Private foundation
Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k62 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $386k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON | $140,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC | $45,000 |
| ENGLISH EMPOWERMENT CENTER | $35,000 |
| FALLS CHURCH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $32,250 |
| ST JOHN'S COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROJECT (WAS AUGUSTINE LITERACY) | $30,000 |
| DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MONTANA | $25,000 |
| KENNEDY CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS | $16,000 |
| ALL GOD'S CHILDREN UMC | $15,000 |
| ST KATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $12,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +72%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +55%
- LCLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- SSOARone grant, 2020 · $15k
- DSDEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE (PIANO REBUILD)one grant, 2022 · $10k
- IUIndiana University School of Medicineone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Paul Sherwen Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 134 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds DEEP SPRINGS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
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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.
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
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 Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
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.