· Private foundation
Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
- $250k+1 grant · $478k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $478,102 |
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $120,403 |
| RIDGWAY COMMUNITY CHRUCH | $10,000 |
| OURAY COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| SAFE TODDLES INC | $5,000 |
| SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND | $3,500 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TELLURIDE CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BOUNTY SOUL | $3,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $3,000 |
| MARINE CONSERVATION INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| SEEDS WILDERNESS THERAPY | $3,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 13 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $634k 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
- RCRIDGWAY CHAUTAUQUA DBA THE NEW SHERBINO THEATER3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +7%
- STSAFE TODDLES2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +50%
- TCTELLURIDE CHAMBER MUSIC3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- MPMAYFLY'S PROJECT FUND AT PURE CHARIone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AMALTERNATIVE MISSIONSone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -100%
TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +87%
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
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…
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.
Increase the strength, effectiveness and political power of the western conservation movement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seeds Wilderness Therapy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 38 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 RIDGWAY CHAUTAUQUA DBA THE NEW SHERBINO THEATER ↗
- Who funds SAFE TODDLES ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seeds Wilderness Therapy ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Telluride Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds SHEEP MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRESH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMPAHGRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP A COLORADO NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ECOACTION PARTNERS ↗
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: Patagoniaorg · Telluride Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% 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.