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Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$411k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$333,333
Organizations funded a year
10 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$3.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & 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
FY2024still arriving9$406k22%
FY202310$411k20%
FY202213$331k8%
FY202117$298k24%
FY202019$311k5%
FY201920$309k10%
FY201822$321k18%
FY201718$275kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.1MHuman Services$474kEducation$455kCommunity Improvement$333kYouth Development$274kRecreation & Sports$50kArts & Culture$33kPhilanthropy$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
TN
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLollipop Theater Network Inc: $197,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetPartners for Youth With Disabilities Inc: $186,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFRAXA Research Foundation Inc: $180,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCamp Southern Ground Inc: $170,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNational Center for Learning Disabilities Inc: $158,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetLesley University: $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlay Place Autism & Special Needs Center: $80,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $66,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRiverview School Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Guts Inc: $42,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetCommunity Rowing Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAnn Arbor Academy Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPickleberry Pie Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetEton Academy: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Windward School: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetScituate Little League Inc 2210805: $10,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPiers Park Sailing Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Paul Robert Carey Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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 22.

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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.

Anne Ford FoundationMI15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Anne Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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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How do I get to Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation

How much does Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation give?
Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $411,333 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (39%), Human Services (18%), Education (17%).
Who are Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lollipop Theater Network Inc ($197k), Partners for Youth With Disabilities Inc ($186k), FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ($180k).
Does Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Anne Ford Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation based?
Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation is based in MI.

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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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