Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $399k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 2 | $19k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $17k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $19k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $17k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $19k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $18k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $18k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allegheny Land Trust | $15,138 | 2 | 0% |
| Trash Cat Rescue Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Pa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc | $14,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Grow Pittsburgh | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc | $12,276 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington Area Humane Society | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Loyalhanna Watershed Association Inc | $8,493 | 1 | 1% |
| Indiana County Humane Society | $7,223 | 1 | 1% |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $4,264 | 1 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Botanic Garden | $2,935 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allegheny Land Trust | $15,138 | 2 | 0% |
| Trash Cat Rescue Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Pa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc | $14,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Grow Pittsburgh | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc | $12,276 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington Area Humane Society | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Loyalhanna Watershed Association Inc | $8,493 | 1 | 1% |
| Indiana County Humane Society | $7,223 | 1 | 1% |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $4,264 | 1 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Botanic Garden | $2,935 | 1 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation | $2,600 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation
- How much does Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation give?
- Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $18,764 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (45%), Animals (39%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Allegheny Land Trust ($15k), Trash Cat Rescue Inc ($15k), Pa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc ($15k).
- Does Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Richard King Mellon Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Eqt Foundation.
- Where is Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation based?
- Jay Sample Thompson Charitable Foundation is based in PA.
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