· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of JOSEPH H THOMPSON FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| 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 |
| KICKSTART KIDS CHARITABLE DONATION | $9,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER COLORADO SEMINARY | $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 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO | $5,000 |
| ROBERT F KENNEDY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Joseph H Thompson Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +36%
- SJSt John's School8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +130%
- SLScarborough Land Conservation Trust8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER COLOARDO SEMINARYone grant, 2019 · $8k
- CTCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -9%
- NPNational Prion Disease Pathology Suone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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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Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
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.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
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…
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…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds Scarborough Land Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds WAYNFLETE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds St Anne's Episcopal School Inc ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds ST ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Arms ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Joseph H Thompson Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Deschutes River Conservancy — 100% of income from government
- High Spirit Community Farm Inc — 54% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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