Wisconsin · Private foundation
Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund
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.
- $113k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 24
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $60k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $112k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $145k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $110k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $101k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $100k | 92% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc | $127,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Promise of Waukesha County Inc | $87,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The Armory Art Center Inc | $52,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Nami Palm Beach County Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Main Street League | $15,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| American Diabetes Association | $10,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Chasin a Dream Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Jonathans Landing Cares Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Albert J & Flora H Ellinger Foundation · Oconomowoc Area Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund
- How much does Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund give?
- Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund reported 23 grants totaling $113,020 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ($127k), Family Promise of Waukesha County Inc ($88k), The Armory Art Center Inc ($52k).
- Does Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund based?
- Dorothy J Thomson Charitable Fund is based in WI.
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