· Private foundation
Owen D and Jennifer Thomas Family Chari Trust
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: 51% of OWEN D AND JENNIFER THOMAS FAMILY CHARI TRUST’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 $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $815k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DE | $225,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $210,000 |
| ULI FOUNDATION | $205,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $125,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH BRONXVILLE | $50,000 |
| UC BERKLEY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $10,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UVA PARENTS FUND | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FUND | $5,000 |
| TEACHING MATTERS INC | $5,000 |
| AUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION | $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 (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $496k 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
- RTROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $855k · revenue +129%
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION5× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +59%- TBTHE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $33k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- NDNYU Department of Psychologyone grant, 2020 · $50k
- NCNORTHSIDE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
- ECEPISCOPAL CHARITIESone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 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 — 0.0% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 82 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 ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ULI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds AUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SPARKYOUTH NYC INC ↗
- Who funds THE PICTURE HOUSE REGIONAL FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF BRONXVILLE EASTCHESTER TUCKAHOE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation 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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Nagle Family Foundation · Marilynn and John Hill Foundation Inc · Noonmark Foundation · Gray 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 Owen D and Jennifer Thomas Family Chari Trust 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Andrew's School of Delaware 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.