· Private foundation
As Thomas Memorial Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| GREENBRIER VALLEY THEATRE | $7,000 |
| REA OF HOPE INC | $7,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $6,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,100 |
| MARTHA GRAHAM SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,700 |
| KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME | $2,500 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| YWCA FAMILY ABUSE CENTER | $2,000 |
| CHARLESTON BALLET | $2,000 |
| KANAWHA HOSPICE CARE | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $750 |
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 (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
47 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- GRGREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +12%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +23%
- TDThreshold Dance Projects Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- PBPARKWOOD BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $1k
- LWLULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATERone grant, 2023 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.
Our mission is to thrill and move our audiences, dancers, choreographers, supporters and staff with art and discipline. our vision is to continuously increase in passion and artistic excellence and strength, acheiving national and…
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…
San jose dance theatre was founded in l964 as a ballet academy and performing company by paul e. curtis, jr. and shawn stuart. it was created to provide excellence in ballet and dance training and high-quality performance opportunities for…
Dance theatre of harlem, inc. (dth) carries a solid commitment toward enriching the lives of young people and adults around the world through the arts.
Ballet Chicago is a professional track school of ballet that creates exceptional dancers. It makes classical ballet training accessible to all. Its founders Daniel Duell and Patricia Blair carry on George Balanchines legacy by providing…
Menlowe ballet performs works that impact audiences through clean, fresh, and innovative choreography ranging from cultural to contemporary works. it offers a professional performing opportunity to elite students from the award winning,…
New jersey dance theatre ensemble provides the highest quality, pre-professional training to aspiring dancers from new jersey through professional experiences with world-renowned dancers, teachers, choreographers, and musicians. founded in…
Nashville ballet's mission is to create, perform, teach, and promote dance as an essential and inspiring element of our community. we fill that mission by offering a diverse range of dance programs in our season repertory, educating…
To provide ballet training for dancers and to entertain audiences as a premier ballet organization.
Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Threshold Dance Projects 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 46 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 68 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 PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Threshold Dance Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LULA WASHINGTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANNA MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MAMARONECK-LARCHMONT STUDENT AID FUND ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE VICTORIES ANIMAL RESCUE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds JACARANDAMUSIC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · The Daywood Foundationinc · Tgkvf Inc · The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr Family Foundation Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 As Thomas Memorial Fund 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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.