· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| 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 |
| LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| VERMONT FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| MEND ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH | $5,000 |
| WINCHESTER FARMERS MARKET COMM HUB | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% 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
MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $133k · revenue +388%- EWETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +85%
- HNHUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- WFWRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +181%
- GRGLEN RIDGE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SQUAD INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -32%
- CVCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE ECONOMIC OPone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Conservation and preservation of land.
Conservation of new hampshire rivers
The princeton land trust was formed to preserve the natural beauty and rural character of the town of princeton.
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…
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
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…
To promote the protection and stewardship of open space and natural resources in the Town of Westwood.
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,…
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Town Hall Theater Inc and 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.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN HALL THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOUCESTER ADVENTUREINC ↗
- Who funds Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds ADDISON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC DBA HOMEWARD BOUND ↗
- Who funds Woburn Council of Social Concern Inc ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Winchester Inc ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER FARMERS MARKET COMMUNITY HUB INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN RIDGE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THACHER & STRAITSMOUTH ISLANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Middlebury Area Land Trust ↗
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: 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
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 He Thompson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Town Hall Theater Inc — 11% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Middlebury Area Land Trust — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc — 1% 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.