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Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc

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.

$464k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 33
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$9.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving29$464k0%
FY202429$429k0%
FY202333$473k9%
FY202231$430k16%
FY202128$344kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$727kEducation$711kHuman Services$355kHealth$75kYouth Development$73kArts & Culture$72kAnimals$68kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($314k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc: $352,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $237,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeaven Inc: $168,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMinnehaha Academy: $147,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWinona State University Foundation: $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetConcordia University St Paul: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Task Force Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMarquette University: $48,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $47,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetConcordia University Inc: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Public Radio Association Inc: $37,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWisconsin Humane Society: $36,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $34,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOur Pack Animal Rescue Inc: $32,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTri-County Community Dental Clinic Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJake's Diapers Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMilwaukee Diaper Mission Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCasa of the Fox Cities Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCots Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMilwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Youth Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin 4-H Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation IncDE17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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.

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How do I get to Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc 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.

About Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc

How much does Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc give?
Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $463,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 33 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (34%), Education (33%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc ($352k), Second Harvest Heartland ($237k), Leaven Inc ($168k).
Does Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc 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 Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc, J J Keller Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc.
Where is Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc based?
Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 36 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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