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Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$635k
Granted FY2025still arriving
80
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k62 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $386k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
$1,500
Median grant
23
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON$140,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC$45,000
ENGLISH EMPOWERMENT CENTER$35,000
FALLS CHURCH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$32,250
CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROJECT (WAS AUGUSTINE LITERACY)$30,000
ST JOHN'S COLLEGE$30,000
KENNEDY CENTER$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MONTANA$25,000
DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE$25,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $10k → 16%STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $1k → 16%Steel Magnolia Moms: $1k → 16%STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $1k → 16%STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $1k → 16%SAMARATIN INNS: $3k → 14%Samaritan Inns: $3k → 14%SAMARATIN INNS: $3k → 14%SAMARATIN INNS: $2k → 14%SAMARATIN INNS: $2k → 14%Samaritan Inns: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
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VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
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TX
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 103 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
22

Total granted

$2.9M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+18%

Still filing today

60%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +72%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +58%
  • LC
    Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • S
    SOAR
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • DS
    DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE (PIANO REBUILD)
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

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.

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6
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
7
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/76
Grantees still filing
58/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc: $185,000 · OtherLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia IncST KATHERINES GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $182,500 · OtherST KATHERINES GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHFALLS CHURCH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $176,500 · OtherFALLS CHURCH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHKennedy Center: $150,000 · OtherKennedy CenterFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: $120,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESSDEEP SPRINGS CORPORATION: $111,000 · OtherDEEP SPRINGS CORPORATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD MONTANA: $95,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD MONTANAWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS: $83,000 · OtherALL GOD'S CHILDREN UMC: $66,000 · Other+74 more: $441,735 · Other+74 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $330,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $325,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MET…+1 more: $20,000 · HealthST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $99,000 · EducationST JOHN'S C…AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE: $55,000 · EducationAUGUSTINE L…UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $36,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY …DICKINSON COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationDICKINSON C…TIDELINES INSTITUTE: $22,500 · EducationTIDELINES I…Indiana University Foundation: $17,000 · EducationIndiana Uni…INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES: $13,500 · EducationKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $11,500 · Education+8 more: $20,800 · Education+8 moreNational Gallery of Art: $135,000 · Arts & CultureNational …CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $57,500 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQU…+17 more: $48,360 · Arts & Culture+17 moreINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $22,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $3,000 · AnimalsExotic Feline Rescue Center: $3,000 · Animals+4 more: $5,000 · AnimalsCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 · PhilanthropyPAUL SHERWEN PROJECT INC: $3,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropySTEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $14,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN INNS INC: $13,000 · Human Services
Other$1,610,735Health$675,000Education$305,800Arts & Culture$240,860Animals$63,500Philanthropy$51,500Human Services$27,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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 budgetYale University: $8,500 over 2y, 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 budget
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 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 ↗
  • Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TIDELINES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Intermountain Planned Parenthood ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES ↗
  • Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
  • Who funds MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN INNS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
  • Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗

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 Co…United Way of the Nat…Ibm International Fou…Clark Charitable Foun…Philip L Graham Fund …The Morris and Gwendo…Give Back FoundationCommunity Foundation …T Rowe Price Program …The Ayco Charitable F…Renaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adele M Thomas Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • St John's College: 2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home