Texas · Private foundation
Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family 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.
- $191k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $63,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $191k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $177k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $222k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $195k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $149k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $150k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $150k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Houston Food Bank | $327,500 | 8 | 0% |
| AIDS Foundation Houston Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pepperdine University | $63,500 | 6 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $52,850 | 6 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| First Baptist Academy | $45,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Joy Development School | $44,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Stages | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Caring Friends Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Agape Development Ministries | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($337k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Strake Foundation · ESB3 Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Houston Endowment Inc
How this is measured
Compare Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation with peer funders
About Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation
- How much does Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation give?
- Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $190,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Education (18%), Health (16%).
- Who are Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Houston Food Bank ($328k), AIDS Foundation Houston Inc ($70k), Pepperdine University ($64k).
- Does Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation 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 Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Elkins Foundation.
- Where is Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation based?
- Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation is based in TX.
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