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Jim 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.

$276k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Civil Rights$426kEducation$309kYouth Development$236kHealth$219kPhilanthropy$155kFood & Nutrition$146kCommunity Improvement$126kRecreation & Sports$116kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$1,250
Median grant
13
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKS GIVES BACK$95,000
FIELD INSTITUTE OF TAOS$55,000
DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$25,000
MISSOURI SLOPE LUTHERAN CARE CENTER$10,000
RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (RUMC)$8,750
FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC$7,500
FOUNDATION FOR URBAN HEALTH & WELL BEING$5,000
COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE$5,000
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$3,000
LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL$2,500
PRESTON COOPER JAMES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$2,500
DALLAS CASA$1,250
SHELTON SCHOOL$1,250
POIEMA FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $50 → 9%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: $5k → 18%MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $1k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $103 → 14%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

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IL
NY
MA
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PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
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NC
DC
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FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Jim Thompson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jim Thompson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$1.7M · 49 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
52

Total granted

$1.7M
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+25%

Still filing today

76%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & 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

  • DC
    DALLAS CASA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +21%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $145k · revenue +35%
  • FI
    Field Institute of Taos
    6× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • BS
    BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -98%
  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • WR
    Woodall Rodgers Park Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +176%
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
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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2
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
5
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
6
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc

Uwmd is a community-based social change organization that unites the community to create lasting change. for 100 years, we've brought together passionate change-makers, alongside corporate, civic and nonprofit partners, to strengthen…

Philanthropy
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/83
Grantees still filing
59/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS CASA: $425,925 · Civil RightsDALLAS CASANORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $145,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKBLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherBLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE DALLAS POLICE: $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE DALLAS POLICERICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (RUMC): $23,750 · OtherPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $65,000 · OtherPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INCTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECTField Institute of Taos: $96,000 · OtherField Institute of Taos+61 more: $157,714 · Other+61 moreDALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE: $80,000 · EducationDALLAS URBAN D…DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationDALLAS EDUCATI…RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $43,400 · EducationRADFORD UNIVER…NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $42,500 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGR…LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $8,750 · Education+8 more: $11,115 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $82,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…Renaissance Youth Center: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentRenaissance …TRUE KIDS 1: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRUE KIDS 1ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS: $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentROCKY MOUNTA…+1 more: $125 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthTHE FIBROL…Baylor Health Care System Foundation: $50,000 · HealthBaylor Hea…Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center Inc: $39,250 · HealthMissouri S…FOUNDATION FOR URBAN HEALTH WELL BEING INC: $30,000 · HealthFOUNDATION…El Centro Regional Medical Center Foundation: $12,650 · HealthEl Centro …+12 more: $8,259 · HealthCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $5,250 · PhilanthropyBrooks Gives Back Inc: $120,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $219 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$425,925Other$662,464Education$255,765Youth Development$216,625Health$190,159Philanthropy$155,250Community Improvement$120,219

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALLAS CASA: $425,925 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBrooks Gives Back Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetField Institute of Taos: $96,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $82,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE: $80,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetRenaissance Youth Center: $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE KIDS 1: $45,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetRADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $43,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Slope Lutheran Care Center Inc: $39,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR URBAN HEALTH WELL BEING INC: $30,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS: $14,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEl Centro Regional Medical Center Foundation: $12,650 over 2y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $10,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $8,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $3,357 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $3,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATERMARK HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESILIENCE 1220 INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDallas Fallen Officer Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Allen Schools: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENHILL SCHOOL: $2,001 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOIEMA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget(ACPMP)APPENDIX CANCERPSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTaos Art Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Dallas FoundationHillcrest FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Constantin Founda…Episcopal Health Foun…Stephen M Seay Founda…The Rosewood Foundati…Gil and Dody Weaver F…The Rees-Jones Founda…Textron Charitable Tr…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX30.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Constantin Foundation Inc · Episcopal Health Foundation Of Dallas · Stephen M Seay Foundation Inc · The Rosewood Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353

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 Jim Thompson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim Thompson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • The Walden Woods Project: 6% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jim Thompson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jim Thompson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 111 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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