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J Walter Thompson Company Fund Inc at a glance

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J Walter Thompson Company Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$538kHealth$5kPhilanthropy$1kRecreation & Sports$100
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
$112,185
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Merit Scholarship Corp$112,185
Washington Montessori$2,500
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Hampshire College: $750 → 12%Williams College: $1k → 12%The Haverford School: $50 → 10%University of Pennsylvania: $250 → 22%University Preparatory School: $3k → 14%Skidmore College: $100 → 7%Hamilton College: $500 → 16%AAAA Foundation Inc: $55k → 17%The Packer Collegiate Institute: $2k → 20%Cardinal Hayes High School: $1k → 28%University of Texas: $1k → 10%Howard University: $3k → 14%Loras College: $40 → 11%Davenport University: $30 → 11%University of Michigan: $3k → 14%St Louis Priory School: $3k → 11%Washington Montessori: $3k → 21%Washington Montessori: $3k → 9%Pomfret School: $250 → 12%The Lovett School: $2k → 13%University of Notre Dame: $100 → 13%National Merit Scholarship Corp: $112k → 14%Drew University: $1k → 4%Williams College: $250 → 12%AEF - ANA Educational Foundation: $22k → 17%University of Texas: $100 → 10%University of Michigan: $3k → 14%Washington Montessori: $3k → 21%The Lovett School: $2k → 13%National Merit Scholarship Corp: $42k → 14%Williams College: $100 → 12%AEF ANA Educational Foundation: $15k → 17%University of Texas: $1k → 10%The Lovett School: $1k → 13%National Merit Scholarship Corp: $39k → 14%Williams College: $100 → 12%AEF ANA Educational Foundation: $10k → 17%The Lovett School: $1k → 13%National Merit Scholarship Corp: $35k → 14%AEF - ANA Educational Foundation: $10k → 17%National Merit Scholarship Corp: $34k → 14%AEF - ANA Educational Foundation: $10k → 17%National Merit Scholarship Corp: $31k → 14%AAAA Foundation: $94k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$530k · 9 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$530k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • NM
    National Merit Scholarship Corporation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $292k · revenue +34%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +139%
  • TL
    THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +5%
  • UP
    University Preparatory School
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • SL
    St Louis Priory School
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
6
Corporation of Haverford College

Haverford college is committed to providing a liberal arts education in the broadest sense. this education, based on a rich academic curriculum at its core, is distinguished by a commitment to excellence and a concern for individual…

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Williams College; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

17 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. 17 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Merit Scholarship Corporation: $292,322 · EducationNational Merit Scholarship CorporationAAAA FOUNDATION INC: $148,950 · EducationAAAA FOUNDATION INC+13 more: $14,080 · EducationAEF - ANA Educational Foundation: $67,300 · OtherAEF - ANA Educatio…Washington Montessori: $7,500 · OtherWashington Montess…University of Michigan: $5,000 · OtherUniversity of Mich…+7 more: $9,040 · Other+7 more
Education$455,352Other$88,840

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $292,322 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAAAA FOUNDATION INC: $148,950 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $1,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREW UNIVERSITY: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLORAS COLLEGE: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 J Walter Thompson Company Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Walter Thompson Company Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Drew University: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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