· Private foundation
Harold E & Phyllis S Thomas Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YOU GOTTA ASK | $65,000 |
| BIBLEWAY INC | $65,000 |
| HERITAGE BIBLE CHURCH | $60,700 |
| CRU | $60,000 |
| PRISON IMPACT MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| LAUNCH PAD MINISTRIES | $55,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +66% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 INSPIRE IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Because International Corp ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harold E & Phyllis S Thomas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold E & Phyllis S Thomas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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