Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

B Thomas Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$116k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$136kHealth$75kFood & Nutrition$42kHuman Services$33kHousing & Shelter$32kRecreation & Sports$26kEducation$24kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$793k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$10,000
DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION$10,000
IRON PHI FOUNDATION$10,000
DONTE'S DEN FOUNDATION$10,000
SPCA OF TEXAS$8,000
STRAYDOG INC$8,000
OPERATION KINDNESS$8,000
CENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTH$8,000
ROUND UP RIVER RANCH$8,000
THE FAMILY PLACE$5,500
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CAL FARLEYS BOYS RANCH$5,000
CASA OF COLLIN COUNTY$5,000
VOGEL ALCOVE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FAMILY PLACE: $6k → 5%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $3k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $3k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $3k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$380k · 18 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
1

Total granted

$380k
$3k

Still filing today

72%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationReligionRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther

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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +105%
  • SI
    STRAYDOG INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +37%
  • OK
    OPERATION KINDNESS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +240%

Funded once

  • M
    MAINGAIT
    one grant, 2022 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Dallas Street Dog Advocates

Dallas street dog advocates is committed to rescuing the stray and forgotten dogs off the streets of dallas, providing them with necessary medical care and training, and finding them permanent homes where they will be cared for the rest of…

Animals
2
Divine Canines

Divine canines therapy encourages smiles and brightens lives. to accomplish this, we recruit and train teams of dogs and their owners and organize and facilitate regular, frequent visits to residents of special care facilities.

Animals
3
Dogs Playing for Life Inc

Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.

Animals
4
Silicon Valley Pet Project

Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.

Animals
5
Defenders of Animal Rights Inc

Animal rescues. pet adoption center. shelter cruelty victims. farm animals. wildlife refuge. spay/neuter. humane education. youth work. grief counseling. human health via pets.

Animals
6
Raskels Rescue
Animals
7
Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals
8
Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota (Ragom) Inc

Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…

Animals
9
Animal Samaritans

At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…

Animals
10
Pasado's Safe Haven

Fighting to end animal cruelty and create a more compassionate world.(continued in schedule o)fiscal year 2024-2025 highlights include:investigated/resourced 71 animal cruelty cases, provided care andrehabilitations for 398 animals at our…

Animals
11
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
12
Texas Round Up Animal Alliance Inc

Adoption and shelter facility for unwanted, abandoned and neglected animals. provide aid to the community who need help with vetting or care of their animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Donte's Den Foundation. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $41,800 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKCENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTH — $32,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTHIRON PHI FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherIRON PHI FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER — $19,000 · OtherGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTERDALLAS LIFE HOMELESS SHELTER — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · Other+1 more — $3,000 · OtherSPCA of Texas — $34,000 · AnimalsSPCA of TexasSTRAYDOG INC — $30,000 · AnimalsSTRAYDOG INCOPERATION KINDNESS — $28,900 · AnimalsOPERATION KINDNESSDOODLE ROCK RESCUE — $28,100 · AnimalsDOODLE ROCK RESCUEDONTE'S DEN FOUNDATION — $15,000 · AnimalsDONTE'S DEN FOUNDATIONVOGEL ALCOVE — $27,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOV…CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH — $8,000 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'…The Family Place — $5,500 · Human ServicesThe Family …ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $26,000 · Recreation & SportsDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationBright Futures Foundation — $4,000 · EducationCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Civil RightsSpark Ministry — $6,500 · Religion
Other$145,800Animals$136,000Human Services$40,500Recreation & Sports$26,000Education$24,000Civil Rights$15,000Religion$6,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $41,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA of Texas — $34,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAYDOG INC — $30,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $28,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDOODLE ROCK RESCUE — $28,100 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $27,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $26,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIRON PHI FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDONTE'S DEN FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpark Ministry — $6,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBright Futures Foundation — $4,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budget
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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds SPCA of Texas
  • Who funds STRAYDOG INC
  • Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS
  • Who funds DOODLE ROCK RESCUE
  • Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE
  • Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH
  • Who funds IRON PHI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DONTE'S DEN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH
  • Who funds Spark Ministry
  • Who funds The Family Place
  • Who funds Bright Futures Foundation

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 B Thomas Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Donte's Den Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to B Thomas Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to B Thomas Family 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph