· Private foundation
Neil L Thompson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL TOWER | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL'S SCHOOL CAROLINE RUTH THOMPSON MEMORIAL | $50,000 |
| MSPCA CAROLINE RUTH THOMPSON EMERGENCY FUND | $50,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY CR THOMPSON 02 HEAD COACH OF FIELD HOCKEY | $50,000 |
| HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY CR THOMPSON MEMORIAL FIELD HOCKEY | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY NLT '63 BOOK | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | $5,000 |
| LAKE VIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| FESSENDEN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HBHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +24%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +32%
- LCLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITY NLT '63 BOOK FUNDone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds KINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Neil L Thompson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neil L Thompson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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