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Owen D and Jennifer Thomas Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Owen D and Jennifer Thomas Family Charitable 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MArts & Culture$911kSocial Science$865kPhilanthropy$569kReligion$275kEnvironment$106kHealth$62kInternational$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $450k
  • $250k+1 grant · $525k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$525,000
ULI FOUNDATION$200,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$200,000
CHRIST CHURCH BRONXVILLE$50,000
ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DE$25,000
UC BERKLEY FOUNDATION$20,000
PREA FOUNDATION INC$15,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$10,000
FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
CHRIST CHURCH BRONXVILLE$10,000
CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC$10,000
THE CONSERVATION FUND$10,000
STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERSHIP INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YO: $2k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
DE
DC
MS
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 34 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
46

Total granted

$5.9M
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+10%

Still filing today

59%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RT
    ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +129%
  • ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue +36%
  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • ND
    NYU Department of Psychology
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • NC
    NORTHSIDE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • EC
    EPISCOPAL CHARITIES
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
7
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
8
World Resources Institute

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…

International
9
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
12
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
37/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Andrews School: $910,500 · OtherSt Andrews SchoolWOODBERRY FOREST AMICI FUND: $487,530 · OtherWOODBERRY FOREST AMICI FUNDUniversity of Virginia: $340,000 · OtherUniversity of VirginiaCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $335,000 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHNYU Office of Gift Administration: $200,000 · OtherNYU Office of Gift Administration+51 more: $452,375 · Other+51 moreROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,380,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY…+5 more: $49,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $1,056,000 · Social ScienceTHE ULI FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · Social ScienceWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $430,000 · EducationWOODBERRY FOR…ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $250,000 · EducationST ANDREW'S S…STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $28,200 · Education+6 more: $39,500 · EducationTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $87,000 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $13,000 · Environment+2 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $15,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $6,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $6,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · International+2 more: $2,000 · InternationalTHE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,725,405Arts & Culture$1,429,000Social Science$1,066,000Education$747,700Environment$103,000International$59,000Philanthropy$41,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,380,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $1,056,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $430,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $87,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $28,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ROWING INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ECONOMIC CLUB OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PICTURE HOUSE REGIONAL FILM CENTER INC: $9,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF BRONXVILLE EASTCHESTER TUCKAHOE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK TRAIL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPNE AAP USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAAFA Redemption Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Rising: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ULI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • 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 FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARKYOUTH NYC INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PICTURE HOUSE REGIONAL FILM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF BRONXVILLE EASTCHESTER TUCKAHOE INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…The Bessemer Giving F…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Nagle Family Foun…Marilynn and John Hil…Noonmark FoundationGray Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY31.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Owen D and Jennifer Thomas Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Owen D and Jennifer Thomas Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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