Delaware · Private foundation
Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation
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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $173,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $1.3M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $1.2M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $1.4M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $997k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meals on Wheels of Polk County Inc | $959,550 | 9 | 14% |
| Brightfocus Foundation | $700,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lakeland Christian School Inc | $650,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Haley Center Inc | $570,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Warner University | $557,500 | 9 | n/a |
| The Public Education Partnership of Winter Haven Inc | $510,983 | 8 | 80% |
| Women and Youth Center Inc | $485,000 | 9 | 22% |
| Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc | $471,100 | 7 | 20% |
| We Care of Central Florida Inc | $402,840 | 8 | 9% |
| Women's Resource Center of Florida Inc | $395,500 | 4 | 28% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($550k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Givewell Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Florida's Natural Growers Foundation Inc · The Jahna Foundation Inc · Epic Affect Inc · Lillian E Bunker Private Foundation · Mountain Lake Community Service Inc · Ruth a Wilson Private Foundation · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · Harrell Family Charities Inc · George Jenkins Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation with peer funders
About Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation
- How much does Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation give?
- Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,271,418 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (17%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Meals on Wheels of Polk County Inc ($960k), Brightfocus Foundation ($700k), Lakeland Christian School Inc ($650k).
- Does Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Homer and Annette 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 Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Givewell Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Central Florida Inc, Publix Super Markets Charities Inc.
- Where is Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation based?
- Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation is based in DE.
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