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Jophedthomas 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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
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.

Health$80kArts & Culture$46kCivil Rights$19kFood & Nutrition$3kHousing & Shelter$250
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$374k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC$4,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$1,500
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$1,000
HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
NEW YORK JUNIOR LEAGUE$1,000
CELEBRATE RESCUE (WEST WARWICK ANIMAL SHELTER)$1,000
JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND$1,000
THE LEAGUE CLUB$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY$1,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$600
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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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $250 → 11%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153k · 6 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$153k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+42%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TM
    THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +53%
  • TE
    The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York
    5× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +33%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • C
    CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +42%
  • AF
    American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -17%
  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +6%
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
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
4
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
5
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
6
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
11
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $43,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE GUILDThe Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York: $25,985 · OtherThe Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Ey…+4 more: $4,000 · Other+4 moreTHE MACULA FOUNDATION INC: $52,000 · HealthTHE MACULA FOUNDATION INCKENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthKENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,500 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $19,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATI…NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $1,000 · Civil RightsMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,000 · Food & NutritionRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $1,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $250 · Human ServicesHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$72,985Health$63,500Civil Rights$20,000Arts & Culture$4,000Food & Nutrition$4,000Human Services$1,250Housing & Shelter$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MACULA FOUNDATION INC: $52,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetThe Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York: $25,985 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe League Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $250 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Jophedthomas Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jophedthomas 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 19 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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