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.

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.

Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc

Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $84k
$10k–50k13 grants · $242k
$50k–250k2 grants · $138k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN	$80,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND	$58,000
LEAVEN	$34,000
MINNEHAHA ACADEMY	$32,500
HUNGER TASK FORCE	$25,000
WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN	$25,000
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - ST PAUL	$25,000
ST PETERS LUTHERAN SCHOOL	$25,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK	$13,000
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER	$12,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY	$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH WISCONSIN	$10,000
SALVATION ARMY OF WI AND UPPER MI	$10,000
MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION	$10,000
JAKES DIAPERS INC	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY21–25, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.1M · 31 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

+37%

Still filing today

74%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthArts & CultureOther

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

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SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
5× · 2021–2025 · $237k · revenue +25%
LI
LEAVEN INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $168k · revenue +39%
MA
MINNEHAHA ACADEMY
5× · 2021–2025 · $148k · revenue +9%

Funded once

GC
GRAND CHUTE POLICE DEPARTMENT
one grant, 2021 · $25k
LY
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
BI
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +216%

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.

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Westconsin Credit Union

The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…

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The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education

University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education

Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc

An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…

Education

Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment

My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health

The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter

Wisconsin Bankers Association

We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.

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University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Our Pack Animal Rescue Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 36 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

20/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Food & Nutrition$589,000Other$645,500Education$424,000Human Services$265,000Health$75,000Arts & Culture$72,000Animals$68,000

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.

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 →

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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 Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report 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.

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