How much does Joseph H Thompson Fund give?

Joseph H Thompson Fund reported 51 grants totaling $197,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Joseph H Thompson Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Environment (22%), Health (20%).

Who are Joseph H Thompson Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Independence Institute ($80k), The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc ($75k), St John's School ($74k).

Does Joseph H Thompson Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Joseph H Thompson Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph H Thompson Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.

Where is Joseph H Thompson Fund based?

Joseph H Thompson Fund is based in CA.

Joseph H Thompson Fund

Joseph H Thompson Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Joseph H Thompson Fund

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.

$198k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$23k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$268kEnvironment$250kHealth$220kPublic Benefit$102kYouth Development$69kRecreation & Sports$41kScience & Tech$39kArts & Culture$30kOther$0

02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k45 grants · $118k
$10k–50k6 grants · $80k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE	$23,000
SCARBOROUGH LAND CONSERVATION TRUST	$15,000
LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE	$11,500
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL	$10,375
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN	$10,000
SECOND WIND FUND INC	$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER COLORADO SEMINARY	$9,500
KICKSTART KIDS CHARITABLE DONATION	$9,500
ST MARY'S ACADEMY	$7,500
HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION	$7,000
RICE UNIVERSITY - VETERANS IN BUSINESS	$6,875
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE SOUTHEAST	$5,375
NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS (FORMERLY TLC)	$5,250
ROBERT F KENNEDY FOUNDATION	$5,000
THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of Joseph H Thompson Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Joseph H Thompson Fundlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 68 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+60%

Still filing today

57%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitAnimalsOther

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

TL
THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +36%
SJ
St John's School
8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +130%
SL
Scarborough Land Conservation Trust
8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue ×15

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER COLOARDO SEMINARY
one grant, 2019 · $8k
CT
CURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -9%
NP
National Prion Disease Pathology Su
one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

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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Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

—

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Equality Effect Inc. 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

66 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. 66 of the 105 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/66

Grantees still filing

48/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$564,825Environment$207,425Education$189,325Public Benefit$89,375Health$32,125Animals$14,500Arts & Culture$13,675

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

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 Denver FoundationCO23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Shopneck Family 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 Joseph H Thompson Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph H Thompson Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely 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.

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