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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.

$659k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$478,102
Organizations funded a year
6 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2024still arriving18$650k72%
FY20237$25k43%
FY20226$25k83%
FY201713$15kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$617kArts & Culture$40kReligion$17kHuman Services$16kEnvironment$16kInternational$11kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
ID
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
AR
TN
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ridgway Chautauqua Dba the New Sherbino Theater$22,00034%
Safe Toddles$10,00023%
Ridgway Community Church$10,0001n/a
Telluride Chamber Music$9,000315%
Marine Conservation Biology Institute$7,75040%
Search for Common Ground$6,50020%
Alternative Missions$5,00011%
Seeds Wilderness Therapy$3,0001n/a
Bounty & Soul$3,00010%
Talitha Koum Institute$3,00011%
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All grantees of Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ridgway Chautauqua Dba the New Sherbino Theater$22,00034%
Safe Toddles$10,00023%
Ridgway Community Church$10,0001n/a
Telluride Chamber Music$9,000315%
Marine Conservation Biology Institute$7,75040%
Search for Common Ground$6,50020%
Alternative Missions$5,00011%
Seeds Wilderness Therapy$3,0001n/a
Bounty & Soul$3,00010%
Talitha Koum Institute$3,00011%
Cure International Inc$3,00010%
Mountain Studies Institue$2,00010%
Information Technology Disaster Resource Center Inc$2,00010%
Telluride Mountain Club$2,00011%
Western Watersheds Projects Inc$2,00010%
Sheep Mountain Alliance$1,50012%
Fresh Foundation$1,50011%
Friends of Cedar Mesa$1,30010%
Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership a Colorado Nonprofit Corporation$1,00011%
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc$1,00010%
Judicial Watch Inc$1,00010%
Western Colorado Alliance$7501n/a
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$50010%
St Helenas Episcopal Church$5001n/a
Ecoaction Partners$20010%
Ridgway Volunteer Fire Department Inc$2001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($615k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRidgway Chautauqua Dba the New Sherbino Theater: $22,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSafe Toddles: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTelluride Chamber Music: $9,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMarine Conservation Biology Institute: $7,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSearch for Common Ground: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlternative Missions: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBounty & Soul: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTalitha Koum Institute: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCure International Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Studies Institue: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInformation Technology Disaster Resource Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTelluride Mountain Club: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWestern Watersheds Projects Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSheep Mountain Alliance: $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFresh Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Cedar Mesa: $1,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUncompahgre Watershed Partnership a Colorado Nonprofit Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHimalayan Cataract Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcoaction Partners: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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 21.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation

How much does Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation give?
Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $658,505 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), Arts & Culture (5%), Religion (2%).
Who are Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ridgway Chautauqua Dba the New Sherbino Theater ($22k), Safe Toddles ($10k), Ridgway Community Church ($10k).
Does Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation 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 Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Telluride Foundation, Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation based?
Pharaoh C Thompson Foundation is based in TX.

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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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