· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKEHSA COUNTY | $27,500 |
| ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ARMORY ART CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL SPACES | $5,000 |
| MAIN STREET LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT | $2,500 |
| LAKEPOINT CHURCH INC | $2,500 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,320 |
| NATIONAL MILL DOG RESCUE | $1,200 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- JMJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $127k · revenue +0%
FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +69%- TATHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $52k · revenue +39%
Funded once
American Diabetes Associationone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +4%- NFNF FUND DETROITone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MAMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +47%
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.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
Raises funds to support the national marrow donor program (nmdp) mission: we save lives through cellular therapy.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Penfield Children's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Mill Dog Rescue. 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 27 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) — 5% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 73 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 Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMI PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds CHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JONATHANS LANDING CARES INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL SPACES INC ↗
- Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RETZER NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds A Doll Like Me INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTRY CARING INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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: 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
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 Dorothy J Thomson Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% 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.