· Private foundation
Harold E & Phyllis S Thomas Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOISE RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $90,000 |
| BAREFOOT MEDIA MINISTRY | $90,000 |
| MOODY AVIATION | $88,040 |
| FELLOWSHP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $80,000 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $80,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGIATE AA | $75,000 |
| LUIS PALAU ASSOC | $75,000 |
| YOUTH WITH A MISSION | $70,750 |
| BIBLEWAY INC | $65,000 |
| YOU GOTTA ASK | $65,000 |
| HERITAGE BIBLE CHURCH | $60,700 |
| PRISON IMPACT MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| CRU | $60,000 |
| LAUNCH PAD MINISTRIES | $55,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
- NNNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2017–2023 · $500k · revenue +32%
- PIPRISON IMPACT MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +14% · 49% of their budget
- LMLAUNCH MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- BIBecause International Corpone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -16%
- TATHE AMBROSE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +66%
- SMSEARCH MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Supporing missionaries worldwide
To work towards the great commission both locally and globally by partnering with the church to mobilize, equip, send and care for short-term teams and long-term workers who will take the gospel to the unreached.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
This media outreach tool affords preachers and teachers of the Word in Christs Kingdom the global projection of media gospel. Our vision of Propagate Media Incorporation is to lift Jesus Christ higher for the world to see! But I, when I am…
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Launch Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 76 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 YOUTH WITH A MISSION OF COLO ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON IMPACT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds YOU GOTTA ASK INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLICAL STUDIES CENTER INC THE BIBLICAL STUDIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Expansion International Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MISSIONARY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Master Minded Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Because International Corp ↗
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: John & Orah Brandt Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Harold E & Phyllis S Thomas 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.
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.
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