How much does He Thompson Foundation give?

He Thompson Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $93,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does He Thompson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Food & Nutrition (24%), Arts & Culture (14%).

Who are He Thompson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mystic River Watershed Association Inc ($133k), Ethel Walker School Inc ($60k), Human Needs Food Pantry Inc ($37k).

Does He Thompson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does He Thompson Foundation 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 He Thompson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.

Where is He Thompson Foundation based?

He Thompson Foundation is based in NJ.

He Thompson Foundation

He Thompson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

He Thompson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$93k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$168kFood & Nutrition$133kArts & Culture$80kEducation$67kHealth$53kAnimals$33kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $23k
$10k–50k4 grants · $70k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$245k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC	$25,000
TOWN HALL THEATER	$20,000
MA AUDUBON-IPSWICH RIV WILDLIFE SAN	$15,000
THE OPEN DOORCAPE ANN	$10,000
MEND ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH	$5,000
VERMONT FOOD BANK	$5,000
LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM	$5,000
HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC	$5,000
WINCHESTER FARMERS MARKET COMM HUB	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$507k · 20 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +67% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$507k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%

+67%

Still filing today

75%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $133k · revenue +388%
EW
ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC
4× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +85%
HN
HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +97%

Funded once

WF
WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +181%
GR
GLEN RIDGE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SQUAD INC
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -32%
CV
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE ECONOMIC OP
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco

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Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment

New Hampshire Rivers Council

Conservation of new hampshire rivers

Environment

Princeton Land Trust

The princeton land trust was formed to preserve the natural beauty and rural character of the town of princeton.

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Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services

Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc

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Manchester Land Conservation Trust Inc

To engage in and otherwise promote the benefit of the general public the preservation and conservation of the natural resources in the greater manchester, connecticut area, including water resources, swamps, woodlands and other spaces, and…

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Westwood Land Trust Inc

To promote the protection and stewardship of open space and natural resources in the Town of Westwood.

Environment

Manchester Essex Conservation Trust

Manchester essex conservation trust preserves in perpetuity the natural beauty, wildlife habitat, and open space resources in our two towns and adjacent communities. we protect this land through acquisitions, conservation restrictions,…

Environment

The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment

Massachusetts Association of Conservatio

The organization represents 14 conservation districts. it is committed to build on partnerships with the state and federal government to protect and conserve the commonwealth's natural resources.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Town Hall Theater Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thacher & Straitsmouth Islands Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 32 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

14/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$163,000Other$157,000Education$60,000Arts & Culture$58,000Health$52,500Human Services$37,000Food & Nutrition$33,000

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.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization He Thompson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from He Thompson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home