New Mexico · Private foundation
Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $15M
- Granted FY2021
- 61
- Grants FY2021
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 87%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 28 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 36 organizations, $15M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $12,176,953
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 60
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 15
- Total assets, FY2021
- $1.2B
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 87% of the organizations Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 60 | $15M | 87% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $2.7M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $230k | 92% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $79k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $626k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collegiate Edu-Nation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 61% |
| Chicago Shakespeare Theater | $574,700 | 3 | 3% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $425,000 | 3 | 1% |
| New Mexico School for the Arts - Arts Institute | $415,000 | 4 | 4% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $341,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Site Santa Fe | $310,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Ngage New Mexico | $300,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Portland Art Museum | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Museum Associates | $230,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 114 recipients with no EIN on record ($20M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Terra Foundation for American Art · Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · New Mexico Humanities Council · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Thornburg Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Pnm Tnmp Foundation
How this is measured
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About Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
- How much does Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation give?
- Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $15,247,759 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (76%), Arts & Culture (17%), Education (3%).
- Who are Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Collegiate Edu-Nation ($1.0M), Chicago Shakespeare Theater ($575k), The Santa Fe Opera ($425k).
- Does Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Terra Foundation for American Art, Santa Fe Community Foundation, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
- Where is Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation based?
- Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is based in NM.
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