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Mary Thompson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$487kHealth$272kHousing & Shelter$215kArts & Culture$177kFood & Nutrition$171kCommunity Improvement$98kEducation$76kPublic Benefit$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $138k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINGS HOME$20,000
POPE FRANCIS CENTER$15,000
THE HELM$13,000
HANNAN CENTER$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
LOURDES INC$10,000
IRONWOOD CARNEGIE LIBRARY$10,000
DETROIT OPERA$10,000
ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL$10,000
RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE$10,000
LORI'S HANDS INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION$8,600
ACCOUNTING AID SOCIETY$8,000
MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $20k → 10%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $10k → 12%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $14k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $20k → 21%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $9k → 8%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $10k → 10%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $10k → 12%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $10k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $15k → 21%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $10k → 12%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $8k → 13%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $10k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $15k → 21%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $8k → 8%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $8k → 12%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $10k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $14k → 21%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $7k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $12k → 21%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $8k → 8%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $5k → 12%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $5k → 16%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $5k → 12%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $5k → 8%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $5k → 12%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE: $5k → 12%MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $5k → 8%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $10k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $5k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%HANNAN CENTER: $10k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 21%HANNAN CENTER: $10k → 21%UNIVERSAL DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS: $10k → 8%OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES: $6k → 8%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $18k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC: $10k → 21%EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN: $14k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 51 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
32

Total granted

$1.6M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+35%

Still filing today

63%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • WH
    WINGS HOME
    8× · 2018–2025 · $114k · revenue +24%
  • Accounting Aid Society
    8× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +127%
  • POPE FRANCIS CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $91k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • CO
    COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • EH
    EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue -28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hospice Homes of Genesee and Lapeer Counties

To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.

Human Services
2
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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3
Mymichigan Home Care

Creating healthy communities - together

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4
Shared Services Home Health Care Corp

It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing servcies to persons who are elderly in a manner which respects their rights,…

Health
5
Hillsdale County Senior Services Center Inc

To support and promote a means for maintaining a senior center in order to achieve specific goals, based on the needs and interests of older persons, those 50 and older except for those programs that receive state and federal funding which…

Human Services
6
Michigan Home for the Armenian Aged

Our goal is to assist each person to remain as independent as possible. we wish to create an environment and atmosphere that is filled with vibrancy, pride, security and a sense of belonging.

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7
Wings of Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Inc

Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.

Human Services
8
Jewish Home and Aging Services

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

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9
Jewish Home Services Inc

Jewish senior life of metropolitan detroit is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults of the metropolitan detroit jewish community through the provision of personalized high quality programs and services that support…

Human Services
10
Community & Home Supports Inc

Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…

Human Services
11
Elder Law of Michigan

To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.

Human Services
12
Jfa Non-Profit Housing Corporation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evangelical Homes of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAdult Residential Care Serv…Faith-Based Social ServicesAffordable Housing & Homele…Companion Animal Rescue & C…K-12 Schools and Education …Youth Leadership Development
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr14%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr14%28%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
16%
4,053/26,028

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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 91 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
36/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE HELM — $79,000 · OtherTHE HELMWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $65,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $45,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESTHE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME — $37,000 · OtherDETROIT INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY — $32,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $31,000 · OtherYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS — $29,500 · OtherEVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $28,600 · Other+42 more — $348,500 · Other+42 morePOPE FRANCIS CENTER — $91,000 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTERALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC — $58,000 · Human ServicesALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS C…RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE — $57,500 · Human ServicesRESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWAS…MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC — $37,000 · Human ServicesMITTENS FOR DETROIT INCLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $35,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLINDJOHN GEORGE HOME INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesJOHN GEORGE HOME INCMOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION — $30,000 · Human ServicesMOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSIONHANNAN CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesHANNAN CENTERSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER — $27,500 · Human ServicesSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS I…+9 more — $66,500 · Human Services+9 moreWINGS HOME — $114,000 · HealthWINGS HOMELOURDES INC — $31,000 · HealthLOURDES INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $12,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $11,500 · HealthTHE NEW DAY…+2 more — $10,800 · Health+2 moreDETROIT OPERA — $51,000 · Arts & CultureGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT — $38,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $33,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureGROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureAccounting Aid Society — $98,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC — $13,500 · Community ImprovementFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $44,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $14,000 · Food & NutritionOAKLAND HOPE — $5,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC — $32,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$786,100Human Services$465,000Health$179,800Arts & Culture$142,000Community Improvement$111,500Food & Nutrition$63,000Housing & Shelter$48,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWINGS HOME — $114,000 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetAccounting Aid Society — $98,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER — $91,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC — $58,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetRESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE — $57,500 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetDETROIT OPERA — $51,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $44,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT — $38,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME — $37,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMITTENS FOR DETROIT INC — $37,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC — $32,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetJOHN GEORGE HOME INC — $32,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLOURDES INC — $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION — $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHANNAN CENTER — $30,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS — $29,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $28,600 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER — $27,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT STEPS 4 SENIORS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC — $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN — $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTER HILLS FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT COMPASSION MINISTRIES INC — $10,200 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetUniversal Dementia Caregivers — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN F/K/A CENTER FOR SENIOR INDEPENDENCE — $5,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Villages of Michigan — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUELLA HANNAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOAKLAND HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Council of Dementia Minds — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Elmwood Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 WINGS HOME ↗
  • Who funds Accounting Aid Society ↗
  • Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
  • Who funds MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds LOURDES INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION ↗
  • Who funds HANNAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds NEXT STEPS 4 SENIORS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK 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.

Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…Dte Energy FoundationMichigan Health Endow…Consumers Energy Foun…The Kresge FoundationPhillip and Elizabeth…The Carls FoundationFlagstar Foundation I…Charles Stewart Mott …Helen L Kay Charitabl…Comerica Charitable F…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI54.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Carls Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Comerica Charitable 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 Mary Thompson Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mary Thompson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mary Thompson 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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