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Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,470
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$703k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving11$44k9%
FY202416$38k25%
FY202311$41k36%
FY202215$54k27%
FY202117$42k47%
FY202010$48k20%
FY201917$46k29%
FY201814$41k43%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$393kRecreation & Sports$4kScience & Tech$4kYouth Development$900Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
AZ
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Linn-Benton Community College$14,5858n/a
Linfield University$12,10070%
Willamette University$6,80040%
Pacific University$6,51050%
George Fox University$6,31040%
Northwestern University$4,00020%
Corban University$3,82030%
Swarthmore College$2,50010%
Brigham Young University-Idaho$2,2002n/a
Pacific Lutheran University$2,20020%
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All grantees of Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Linn-Benton Community College$14,5858n/a
Linfield University$12,10070%
Willamette University$6,80040%
Pacific University$6,51050%
George Fox University$6,31040%
Northwestern University$4,00020%
Corban University$3,82030%
Swarthmore College$2,50010%
Brigham Young University-Idaho$2,2002n/a
Pacific Lutheran University$2,20020%
University of Washington$2,0602n/a
Lewis & Clark College$2,00010%
Carroll College$1,80010%
Depaul University$1,80010%
Trustees of Boston University$1,80010%
Brigham Young University$1,6502n/a
Goshen College Inc$1,60010%
Seattle University$1,40010%
Occidental College$1,40010%
New York University$1,10010%
University of Portland$80010%
College of the Siskiyous$5101n/a
Lane Community College$5001n/a
Concordia University$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($320k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLinfield University: $12,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWillamette University: $6,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPacific University: $6,510 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Fox University: $6,310 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCorban University: $3,820 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSwarthmore College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Lutheran University: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLewis & Clark College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarroll College: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDepaul University: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoshen College Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle University: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOccidental College: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Portland: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia University: $500 over 1y, 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 18.

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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.

Leo Adler TrustIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leo Adler Trust · Elwell-Colvin Scholarship Fund · Joann Hamilton Memorial Fund · Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley · Eminger Stewart Foundation Uma · Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation

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 Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd

How much does Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd give?
Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd reported 11 grants totaling $43,930 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Recreation & Sports (1%), Science & Tech (1%).
Who are Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Linn-Benton Community College ($15k), Linfield University ($12k), Willamette University ($7k).
Does Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Leo Adler Trust, Elwell-Colvin Scholarship Fund, Joann Hamilton Memorial Fund.
Where is Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd based?
Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd is based in MN.

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 52 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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