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Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$436k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$10M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$436k90%
FY20232$400k50%
FY20221$150kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

International$550kArts & Culture$250kHousing & Shelter$86kHealth$50kYouth Development$30kEducation$10kReligion$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Netherland-America Foundation Inc: $450,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetOrange County Museum of Art: $250,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Population Council Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sundari Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Evoluer House: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetJack M Barrack Hebrew Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation

How much does Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation give?
Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $435,516 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (56%), Arts & Culture (25%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The Netherland-America Foundation Inc ($450k), Orange County Museum of Art ($250k), The Population Council Inc ($100k).
Does Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation based?
Joseph and Mildred Thelen Memorial Foundation is based in PA.

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 11 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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